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Autosave and Workspace

How many times have you been working on an image and had PSP or your computer freeze only to restart and realize you’ve lost everything? Even if you weren’t very far along this occurance is very upsetting and hours of hard work can be lost in the blink of an eye. Luckily PSP has an option that can help us from preventing our work.

If PSP crashes, Autosave will save your work to a temporary file which will open once you reopen PSP.

Open PSP and go to the “File” menu. From there select “Settings” and then click on “Autosave Settings.” The settings box will appear. Check “Enable Autosave and then set the number of minutes. Mine is set pretty low, at 1 minute, so my image will be saved to a temporary file every 1 minute. If you set it to a higher number, say 5, your image will only be saved every 5 minutes. If PSP crashes, you most recent changes may not be saved if you set at a higher number. Preview

Have you eve been working on an image and wanted to stop and finish later and work on something else? But you know if you work on something else your settings, colours etc will be changed and when you want to go back to your other image, you’ll have to guess at those settings. However, you can save your workspace so that it can be reloaded later, settings intact. Not only that, but if you keep your images in the same location on your computer, it will also bring those back up.

To save your workspace go to the “File” menu, select “Workspace” and click “Save.” Type in a memorable name for your workspace and click “Save.” Your Workspace will now be ready for you to load at a later date. Preview

Ready to load your workspace? Go to the “File” menu, select “Workspace” and click “Load.” Select your workspace name from the list and click “Load.” Voila! Your images and settings are back again. Preview

Done with your workspace? You can delete it by going to the “File” menu, selecting “Workspace” and clicking “Delete.” Select your workspace name from the list and click “Delete.” An alert will pop up asking if you’re sure – Click “Okay” and your workspace is deleted. Preview