Photoshop is one of those programs that likes to crash frequently. In fact the more important the current image you are working on, the greater the chance of Photoshop crashing. There is also a greater chance of you failing to remember to save your file sometime in the last three or four hours.

Wouldn’t it be great if Photoshop could auto-save your open document? It would! But it doesn’t! This causes a conundrum: How does one get to automatically save your work every so often if Photoshop does not have such an option.

Recently when one of the many web-comic artists I follow complained of loosing three hours of work; I realized that I could fix that problem. (No, not the Photoshop crashing problem) Or I could at least mitigate a lot of the damages by loosing three hours of work.

Hence, I’ve made a program PS AutoSaver to solve this issue. This is a C#/Python program that sits neatly in your taskbar tray and will remember to save your open work document every couple of minutes for you. It also has the ability to auto-launch Photoshop, start directly in your task-tray and even create versions of the saved file every time it saves.

The goal was to design a simple enough tool that it could replace the Photoshop shortcut and add in the bonus feature of auto saving the work document. Hopefully it succeeds in this design.