File Delivery

Workflow Optimization

Why Your Photoshop Export Settings Are Quietly Killing Your Delivery Speed

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from finishing a retouching job and then spending forty minutes exporting it. The creative work is done. The client is waiting. And you’re sitting there clicking through Save for Web dialogs like it’s 2009, manually typing in filenames, second-guessing your JPEG quality slider every single time. I’ve been doing commercial post-production for fifteen years. I’ve processed product shots for e-commerce catalogues, delivered layered comps to ad agencies, and built batch systems for studios running thousands of files a month.

September 23, 2026

Workflow & Automation

Why Your Photoshop Export Settings Are Quietly Destroying Your Deliverables

The file came back from the client at 11:47 on a Tuesday night. Rejected. Not because the retouching was wrong, not because the color was off. Because every JPEG in the batch had been saved at 72 PPI instead of 300, and the print vendor had already started a press run. I was three years into running my own post-production consultancy at that point, and that was the last time I ever let an export step live inside my head instead of inside an action.

September 10, 2026

Workflow & Automation

Why Your Photoshop Export Settings Are Quietly Wrecking Your Client Deliverables

There’s a specific kind of dread that hits when a client emails back asking why the jpegs you delivered look different on their end than they do on your monitor. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit, and almost every single case traced back to the same root cause: sloppy export settings baked into a Photoshop action that nobody had audited in months. After 15 years working in commercial photography studios and now running my own post-production consultancy, I’ve built, broken, inherited, and rebuilt more export workflows than I can count.

August 25, 2026