This picture won’t go below about 600KB, even if I put it at 72dpi and low quality in Photoshop. Tumblr won’t take it. I assume it’s too big a file.
What is so weird about this picture, and how do I fix it?
Thanks.
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Changing the resolution doesn’t change the amount of information in the image. You need to scale it to actually make it smaller. It’s been a while since I’ve used Photoshop, but there is Image Size option in one of the menus. Select that and input a smaller resolution. (The chain-link control next to the width/height box will force the width/height ratio to stay the same when you change one box.)
I made it half the length, and very little changes in the file size.
I’m not sure why you’re having issues. Here’s the file reduced by 50% on each dimension, at 110K.
Its got extra layers in it, - it has a transparancy layer at least - they are not being culled by any quality spec you set.
With paint, Save it as a 24 bit BMP. That can’t have any extra info it it.
Then open that and save that as jpg…
Thanks, but I’m still confused. You made it 3 inches long, and my version of 2 inches long is 645KB.
Didn’t read all of Isilder’s reply. Thanks!
Images like this, with few colors or gradients, are also better suited for the PNG image format. At 50% of the dimensions and saved into a paletted PNG, it becomes a mere 30kB. Even at 100%, it’s only 80 kB or so.
And depending on your intended use, it MIGHT be possible to use a vector. Saved as a SVG, it’s only 10kB and can be scaled to any resolution with no increase in file size. Just an option to consider.
Mine was actually cut by half in each pixel dimension of yours, so it is smaller.
I just went into photoshop and reduced the dimensions from 1800 x 634 to 900 x 317. I’m not sure where your “3 inches” long is coming from. The original reads as 6 inches @ 300 dpi in Photoshop. But “inches” without “DPI” doesn’t mean anything. At the end of the day, just look at pixel dimensions to know how much information your photo contains. Your photo is 3 inches @ 600 dpi or 2 inches @ 900 dpi, etc. You can change that number without changing the pixel dimensions.
There’s no transparency layers or anything that I see in the original JPEG, so I’m not sure what Islider is seeing. Besides, AFAIK, JPEGs don’t support layers or have transparency channels. Photoshop doesn’t let me save a JPEG with layers. For images with a transparency channel, PNGs are a good choice.
I didn’t think JPEG had the capability of storing layers. What editor will allow you to save a JPEG with layers? I use Photoshop Elements and if I save a Photoshop file with layers as a JPEG the layers are gone.
.jpg doesn’t have layers.
I don’t see what the problem is. The original image is 6 inches x 2 inches at 300dpi, and the color mode is cmyk - This is an image meant for printing at high resolution, it’s going to have a large file size. 903kb is about what you would expect. I changed the resolution to 72dpi and the color mode to rgb. I was able to save the new file at 31kb.
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I missed the color mode info. If you’re putting this up to be viewed on the web, you should change it to RGB, as CMYK can make things screwy when viewing it in various browsers, OSes. It will also affect size. Saving the original file, doing nothing but changing it from CMYK to RGB and saving it as a JPEG of quality 10 gives me a 139KB file.
ETA: As for changing resolution, it’s important to remember you have to change resolution and keep it locked to the original size. Otherwise, the photo can be 72 pixels/inch, but Photoshop will scale the metadata for the size to 25 inches by 8.806 inches, while retaining the 1800 px by 634 pixel dimensions. The important this is those pixel dimensions are what you need to look out for to get a sense of how many pixels are actually stored in your file, and thus how big your image is.
I should also add that that’s why Tumblr is probably not taking it. It does not support CMYK files.
I forgot to add, I also used the “Save for Web & Devices” method in PS rather than the normal save method. It strips out all non-image related bits such as meta data, which will decrease your file size further.