I have an image that needs to be not greater than 3.5MB but the longest side has to be at least 1800 pixels to qualify for an art entry, I called for help this morning but just as the tech was making progress the call dropped. When I view the metadata in a finder window (Mac) it meets those criteria, however when I open it, and look at it using Image>ImageSize, the number of pixels on the longest side is ok but the file size is 11.7mb.
Thanks for any suggestions.
@LynnPassionart The 3.5MB criteria you have been given is likely to be the filesize as saved to a disk. On saving files can be heavily compressed to save disk space, especially when using jpeg, and to cut down filesize when sending online.
The data you see in Image > Image size is a simple calculation of pixel width x pixel height x 3 (for an RGB 8 bit image) or x 6 (for an RGB 16 bit image). It has nothing to do with the compressed file size on disk.
Dave
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