A second and even more impressive new feature in Photoshop CS6 is Auto Save. Even though Photoshop has evolved into a very mature and stable program, there’s always the chance that something will go wrong and Photoshop will crash. When that happens, we often end up losing all the work we’ve done on our image, forcing us to start over again from scratch. At least, that’s the way things used to be back in Photoshop CS5 and earlier. Auto Save allows Photoshop to save a backup copy of our work at regular intervals so that if Photoshop does happen to crash, we can recover the file and continue from where we left off!
We can tell Photoshop how often we want it to save a backup copy of our work in the File Handling section of the Preferences. On a PC, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen, choose Preferences, and then choose File Handling. On a Mac, go up to the Photoshop menu, choose Preferences, then choose File Handling:
Here, you’ll find the Automatically Save Recovery Information Every option, which by default is set to 10 minutes, meaning that Photoshop will save a backup copy of your work every 10 minutes. You can increase it to every 5 minutes, as I’ve done here, or if you’re more of a gambler, you can set it to save a backup copy once every hour (there’s also a 15 minutes and 30 minutes option):
It’s important to note that Photoshop isn’t saving over your original file (which would be very bad). The recovery information is kept in a separate backup file. If Photoshop does happen to crash while you’re working, simply re-open Photoshop and it will automatically open the most recently saved backup copy, complete with all the work you had done up to the point where Photoshop saved the backup copy (assuming, of course, that you had been working long enough for Photoshop to have made at least one backup copy). You’ll know it’s the backup copy because Photoshop adds Recovered to the file name (which is displayed in the tab at the top of the document window):
And there we have it! That’s a quick look at the new Background Save and Auto Save features in the newly released Photoshop CS6!
We can tell Photoshop how often we want it to save a backup copy of our work in the File Handling section of the Preferences. On a PC, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen, choose Preferences, and then choose File Handling. On a Mac, go up to the Photoshop menu, choose Preferences, then choose File Handling:
Here, you’ll find the Automatically Save Recovery Information Every option, which by default is set to 10 minutes, meaning that Photoshop will save a backup copy of your work every 10 minutes. You can increase it to every 5 minutes, as I’ve done here, or if you’re more of a gambler, you can set it to save a backup copy once every hour (there’s also a 15 minutes and 30 minutes option):
It’s important to note that Photoshop isn’t saving over your original file (which would be very bad). The recovery information is kept in a separate backup file. If Photoshop does happen to crash while you’re working, simply re-open Photoshop and it will automatically open the most recently saved backup copy, complete with all the work you had done up to the point where Photoshop saved the backup copy (assuming, of course, that you had been working long enough for Photoshop to have made at least one backup copy). You’ll know it’s the backup copy because Photoshop adds Recovered to the file name (which is displayed in the tab at the top of the document window):
And there we have it! That’s a quick look at the new Background Save and Auto Save features in the newly released Photoshop CS6!
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