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Photoshop: Accidentally saved a flat PSD after saving PDF
1. Save a layered document as a pdf WITHOUT LAYERS (common for print)
2. Save the same document as psd, and "layers" are unchecked by default.
This has resulted twice in me losing hours of work by accidentally saving a flattened PSD.
Anytime a PSD is saved it should [by default] include the layers; no matter what I chose to do the last time I saved.
How often would you purposely save a flattened PSD? Never, so why would it EVER be a default?
2. Save the same document as psd, and "layers" are unchecked by default.
This has resulted twice in me losing hours of work by accidentally saving a flattened PSD.
Anytime a PSD is saved it should [by default] include the layers; no matter what I chose to do the last time I saved.
How often would you purposely save a flattened PSD? Never, so why would it EVER be a default?
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chris_cox_2148894
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8 years ago
And yes, flat PSDs are useful sometimes, just as flat PDFs, JPEGs and TIFFs are useful..
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jim_hunt_4468003
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8 years ago
Think of huge layered psd becoming completely flattened with no way to recover the layers. It's a disaster. There should at least be a warning dialogue box that says "are you sure you want to save this psd without layers?"
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jim_hunt_4468003
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8 years ago
Image 2: "Do not preserve editing capabilities" ("PDF specific - the one I uncheck)
Somehow this PDF specific option gets remembered by photoshop as a global saving preference. Do you see what I mean?
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gracjan_donarski
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andy_twomey
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dan_hartcher
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4 years ago
Funny 5 years later and still the same issue that could be so easily fixed..
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april_wheeler
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3 years ago
This just happened to me, and I was being so careful! I even dragged the original file down into windowed mode and created a duplicate before flattening it to save as a PDF. I then closed that one without saving, and before I shut down my computer I specifically saved the original as a PSD to make sure the layers would be in-tact when I got back!!!
I am so unbelievably angry right now.
I get to work today, and my boss is asking me what happened to the PSD, it's flat and he had wanted to extract assets from it for an animated version to put on the ad screens.
I'm frantic now, because I don't have TIME to re-create this #*@& ad - I have another deadline! I came in on my day off to work on this, damn it, something so catastrophic should NOT be so easy that it can happen by accident!!
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