Re: My File Is Growing; I'm Confused!
- From: tacit <tacitr@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:05:21 -0400
In article
<af55ef5f-29e1-40c3-b54d-ce9c50546ba2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Amaris <cjlantier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First of all, I know almost nothing about Photoshop; I'm working with
the 30-day download because I'm trying to make a postcard for
vistaprint.com and they recommend Photoshop. I've downloaded their
template, which is 1.33 MB, and the picture I'm trying to put into it
is 2.60 MB. Yet, when I put them together, the result is 17.1 MB --
and that's with me deleting one of their layers! I'm obviously doing
something VERY wrong. I need to get the file under 8 MB for vista to
accept it. Can someone help me?
You did nothing wrong. Everything is as it should be.
Let me guess: You say the picture you are trying to put in, the one that
is 2.6 MB, is a JPEG, right?
JPEG files are compressed. They are made smaller on disk when they are
saved. If you open a JPEG file that is 2.6 MB and ten look at the size
of the file in Photoshop, it will be way, way bigger than 2.6 MB.
Save your picture. Then us the Save As command. Save a new copy as a
JPEG. The file will be smaller.
Be aware that JPEG makes files smaller by deliberately degrading the
quality. Keep the .psd file handy; if you want to make changes, go back
to it. Do not change a JPEG, save it, open it, make more changes, and
save it again. Each time you do, the quality will become worse.
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