This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Saving & Printing
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Why it appears: When you save a layered document in PSD format (File>Save As and choose Photoshop from the Format pop-up menu), this warning dialog will appear if your Maximize Compatibility preference is set to ask you when saving PSD files.
How to fix it: When the dialog appears, simply click OK.
How to prevent it from happening: Go to Preferences (Command-K [PC: Control-K]) and under the File Handling section, choose a different setting in the Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility pop-up menu. Selecting Always will always save layers in the document; selecting Never will never save layers—in both cases without asking first.
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Why it appears: A generic message that appears whenever you print to a non-PostScript printer (most inkjet printers, for example).
How to fix it: Another one of these “are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this?” messages, so there's really no fix, unless you print to a different printer.
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Why it appears: The document you're attempting to print is larger than the printable area on your chosen printer.
How to fix it: You can decide to ignore the warning, click Proceed, and print to see what happens, or click Cancel and try to fix the problem by resizing your image (Image>Image Size).
How to prevent it from happening: Try choosing Print with Preview (rather than Print) from the File menu. Then you can use the preview and click on the Scale to Fit Media checkbox if necessary.
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Why it appears: You're trying to use Adobe Services to print online (File>Print Online), but your document needs to be saved.
How to fix it: Click Save and Continue to do just that, or click Cancel, save the document the way you want it, and then return to File>Print Online.
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Why it appears: An error that appears if you're trying to save onto a disk that is almost full. It can sometimes appear when you've opened a file directly from a CD and have tried to save to the disc even though it's read-only.
How to fix it: Click Cancel and use File>Save As, so you can control where the file is saved.
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Why it appears: Here's an “okay, thanks” warning dialog.
How to fix it: Check Don't Show Again (as quickly as possible!).
Finally, the winner of the strangest warning dialog, perhaps in the history of computers:
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To be fair to Photoshop, this is a Mac OS dialog that popped up when I wanted to make sure that a series of files were associated with Photoshop. Yes, it actually asked me if I wanted to change all of my Photoshop CS2 documents to open with Photoshop CS2. Hmmm….