JPG just won't reduce in size no matter what

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November 4, 2022
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Hey folks, there is this JPG file that is driving me crazy - it is 1.4 Mb in size and no matter how low the quality I save it at, it just gets reduced to 1.3 Mb at the most. I tried saving it as TIFF, as PNG - nothing changes. I can get it inside AI and export it from there and it becomes like 60 kb. There is some information inside that stays there but I just can't figure out what it is. Any ideas?

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Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Are you attaching the color profile?

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gradimirAuthor

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Aye, it was inserted but stripping it didn't reduce anything. I think the profile itself is like 4-5k.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi, which program and its version created that document?

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gradimirAuthor

Participating Frequently

Not sure, it was sent to me. In some of the exif info, I think, there were some lines regarding Photoshop CC back in 2019 along with some aoutorecovery.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

I've never seen the metadata too large error before and I've had some doozies.

You could try removing the metadata outside of Photoshop:

Select the jpg in your Windows browser.
Right-click and select Properties, then Details.
Click "Remove Properties and Personal Information" link at the bottom of the window.
Select "Create a copy with all possible properties removed"
Hit Ok.
Open copy in PS.

If that does not work, you may need to see about using a third-party sniffer to remove any extra metadata.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@gradimir

The easy answer is to use Export or Save for Web, which strips most metadata. If you need to Save As, then you will need to clear the excessive photoshop:DocumentAncestors metadata using one of the methods outlined here:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/06/metadata-bloat-photoshopdocumentancestors.html