Finally, Background Save and Auto Recovery in Photoshop CS6

on Apr 17th 2012 with 17 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS6
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 90 Seconds

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 8 of 29 in the Introduction to Photoshop CS6 Session
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Be honest, how many times have you lost hours of work because you forgot to save your files? Photoshop users have been asking for a background save and auto recovery feature for a long time. In Photoshop CS6, Adobe delivered! In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series we will discuss Photoshop CS6′s new Background Save and Auto Recovery Features. Let’s take a look!

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  • http://herozon.com Zarel

    Photoshop CS6 has a huge jump, looks everything is beautiful, thanks Grant for sharing this feature!

  • http://www.cgvector.com cgvector

    Photoshop Cs6 is a very very useful adobe tool. i suggest to you that please announce a photoshop image editing contest on a weekly basis….

  • Dan

    1:22 – Wow that was quick! How do you manage to make it open that fast?

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
      Author

      Hey Dan, I edited out the time it took for Photoshop to open. No reason to make you guys wait while Photoshop is loading.

      • http://psdfreemium.com Jeprie

        That’s cheating.

      • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
        Author

        I’d be happy to show you the unedited version if you want to stare at my empty desktop for 20 more seconds ;-)

      • http://herozon.com Zarel

        LOL! RT: I’d be happy to show you the unedited version if you want to stare at my empty desktop for 20 more seconds

    • Asuranii

      with a SSD I open photoshop in 5sec

  • http://jajodia-saket.sjbn.co/ Saket Jajodia

    Using i seance the day it launched but didn’t knew about this awesome feature.. Thanks a lot man..!! :)

  • http://www.animhut.com Sri Ganesh.M

    I already had this experience. due to chrome browser crash(some site shockwave plugin) the system have to be restarted and thanks to this my project work which i was creating for 1 hrs is saved !

  • Strainger

    Thats a nice feature! I’ve got one question: Auto Recovery…nice, but sometimes, a pc or laptop can crash or the electricity is down because of who knows what. And in CS5, i can’t find my project back from the “recent opened”. Does it also recover your project ?

  • mr wong

    Finally something for the people too stupid to remember to press ctrl+s every few minutes.

  • ev

    any way to cancel the background saving while it’s happening? can’t seem to find a cancel button or anything…

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
      Author

      I don’t think there’s a way to cancel in the middle of a save but you can just disable the feature all together if you don’t like it.

  • Tomasz

    Auto recovery didn’t worked for me once (1/2). It crashed, and I opened it to see old work without 2 hours of progress.
    Nothing’s perfect.

  • http://kreativmaestro.me richie rich

    Hey,

    I have Acer Timeline 5830T Model with Intel Graphic Card 821 MB. Photoshop says its not officially supported and if you experience any problem uncheck using it in Perfomance Tab.

    Why don’t they support the Intel’s Graphic Card???

  • Adam

    Nice feature!! But there is another scenario in which the file data has been save but you are unable to access it. This is very popular issue now. The main reason behind the inaccessible PSD file is corruption. I want to recommend all those users who are unable to access corrupt file, should try third party PSD Repair Software. The most popular tool is Stellar Phoenix PSD Repair!!