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Hey Guys...

I need some help as soon as you can help me figure this out. My company used to put out a monthly "sales flier". It has been 6 or 7 months since that has actually happened. Previously, the fliers were done up in Publisher by the boss and to be quite honest the end result was very blah looking. I was asked to get this project going again and decided to ditch Publisher for Photoshop.

I created a 2 files (Page 1 and Page 2). Each file is 8-1/2" x 11" with a resolution of 300px. Each file contains 6 large images reduced in size via smart object along with text. As you can imagine this produced a file size of nearly 30mb each. This is too big for us to email out to our customer base which consists of about 100 customers.

What are my options to get these files down to 2mb or below but still keep the integrity of the work? I've tried reducing the resolution, saving as pdf with jpg compression down to low, converting to greyscale (this is something I don't really want to do as the look and feel of the flier is centered all around the colors).

I suppose I could also use some sort of zip/rar program to reduce a bit smaller.

Am I dreaming to big? Or is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

It does seem to me that PS is not the application to use for this purpose. You would be better off with Word for the text with pictures inserted into the document. If you are using an inkjet, 300 ppi is overkill.

I am responsible for a monthly newsletter for a non-profit organization. Each newsletter has four pages with one image inserted into the first page. The largest size so far has been less than 1 MB.
The images are tiff or jpg depending on my mood at the moment. It doesn't seem to matter much as to the image format because Word does what it wants regardless. I also specify no more than 200 ppi because that is plenty for an inkjet printer.

Jim

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