Photoshop file sizes

[Jimboyaka]

is there a way to keep your file sizes down? been doing 11x17 flyers at 300 dpi and they generally are always around 16mb, but they are also seem to get bigger. this one I just did is 20mb. is this normal or do I have something set wrong? I've tried flattening them and everything, but it still turns out the same.

it's not really a problem other than they can be too big to email and some people get confused trying to use file sharing sites.

[Mark McCormick]

are you saving them as jpegs or .psd files?

[Jimboyaka]

I mean the final jpeg

[Kotah]

When saving as a tiff select LZW in your tiff options pop up, this should drastically reduce your file size. Then you could save the tif as a jpg if needed.

[mikeage]

does it really need to be 300dpi for the final jpeg if it's only going to be printed at 11x17?
did you clear any selections you may have saved.
i don't know if it matters for what you're doing but rgb is smaller than cmyk

[RichieGoodtimes]

LZW compression works by grouping same color pixels together in the write order of the file. It is really best suited for black and white bitmaps or images with large areas of flat color. It does next to nothing for photographs. You can save with LZW, if you want, though. It's lossless compression, unlike a jpeg, so nothing is written out of the file and there is no artifacting when it is saved.

I don't know what your end purpose is with these files that you're sending, but if you save as a Photoshop 2.0 file, you strip out ALL of the shit that Photoshop writes to the files, like color profiles and whatnot and simply leaves the pixel data. Anyone with any version of Photoshop above 2.0 can read these files, but you're shit out of luck if they want to open them in something else.

[loco]

If the person on the other end is just going to print it out at 100%. Save it as a jpeg 150 resolution at 100%. I print stuff at work that is sometimes 425" x 34" or sometime larger. I design it and it ends up a super big file and if I was to send to the rip it would take the file forever to rip. The way I get around it is I save it at 100% but as a flat jpeg. it brings the file size way down and it rips alot faster.

hope this helps

-loco

[MelvinOfTheApes]

i had the same problem, especially when dealing with people who aren't computer smart and can't understand FTP. i used to upload files directly to our server, then send the client the direct link for them to download. They just had to right click the link and save as. Then that became a problem when different browsers and email clients would give people different options. So I created a website (free - using Weebly) which has a drag and drop, dummy proof file upload/download option. You upload your file to weebly, the client goes to your website, sees the file they want to download, then click on it.
Or course, I still get clients that can't figure that out.

[B-DROID]

The Files are IN the computer?

[squeegeethree]

20mb isn't really that big a file. Typically the files I'm working on are 150mb to 800mb. You just need to change your thought process on what is big.