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I am working with Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Mac OS 10.3.9 with 1 GB of RAM (a PowerBook G4). I’ve had this program for over a year and never experienced a problem like this before.
Yesterday I started to make small 100×100 images out of photos I had, only to find that instead of about 40K like I expected, these image file sizes (when I saved them as .JPGs or .PNGs) were 80K or 100K on disk! I tried playing with the .JPG compression options, but while that brought it down somewhat, it didn’t take it to 40K like I expected. I even opened a simple 100×100 square with Photoshop’s default settings (resolution 2 pixels/inch, RGB 8-bit) and colored it black. Though Photoshop reported on save that it was only 29.3K, the image appeared on my computer as a 50K .JPG. What is going on here? Why is the file size showing up so inflated, and what prompted this?
Thanks very much for your help. Let me know if you need any other information.
Yesterday I started to make small 100×100 images out of photos I had, only to find that instead of about 40K like I expected, these image file sizes (when I saved them as .JPGs or .PNGs) were 80K or 100K on disk! I tried playing with the .JPG compression options, but while that brought it down somewhat, it didn’t take it to 40K like I expected. I even opened a simple 100×100 square with Photoshop’s default settings (resolution 2 pixels/inch, RGB 8-bit) and colored it black. Though Photoshop reported on save that it was only 29.3K, the image appeared on my computer as a 50K .JPG. What is going on here? Why is the file size showing up so inflated, and what prompted this?
Thanks very much for your help. Let me know if you need any other information.
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