Export Settings

Workflow & Automation

Why Your Export Settings Are Quietly Destroying Hours of Editing Work

The Problem Nobody Talks About Until It’s Too Late Last spring I delivered 340 product images to an e-commerce client, all exported through a Photoshop action I’d built specifically for their spec sheet. Correct color profile, correct resolution, correct file naming convention. Looked perfect on my end. Their web platform read 60 of them as oversized on upload, and their dev team spent two hours troubleshooting something that turned out to be a metadata issue I hadn’t accounted for.

August 26, 2026

Workflows

Mastering Export Workflows: How to Package Your Photoshop Actions Like a Pro

Mastering Export Workflows: How to Package Your Photoshop Actions Like a Pro I’ve spent more hours than I’d like to admit troubleshooting broken action files and corrupted preset exports. But here’s what I’ve learned: most export problems aren’t mysteries—they’re just preventable mistakes. Let me walk you through the exact workflow I use to export actions and presets that reliably work across different machines. Understanding Photoshop’s Export Limitations Before you export anything, you need to know what Photoshop actually supports.

April 18, 2026

Photoshop Workflows

Mastering Export Workflows: How to Save Your Photoshop Actions Properly

I’ve watched too many creators struggle with broken action files. Someone exports an action, shares it, and suddenly it won’t load on another machine. The preset icons disappear. The color values get corrupted. These problems aren’t random—they come from exporting the wrong way. After years of building and distributing actions, I’ve learned exactly what works and what doesn’t. Let me walk you through it. Why Export Matters More Than You Think Here’s the thing: exporting an action isn’t just about sharing.

February 24, 2026