Photoshop Save for Web Jpeg size
Can somebody shine some light for me on how PhotoShop JPEG Save For Web works?
Here is my problem:
- I start with original.bmp (32.1MB on hard disk).
- Then I run File | Save For Web... , using following options:
- Optimized (Checked)
- Embed Color Profile (Checked)
- Convert to sRGB (Checked)
- Quality = 60
What I get is original.jpg of 474KB.
Next I add white rectangle on top of the picture, increasing picture size by 200px.
This increases size of bmp to 33.7MB from 32.1MB. This makes sense to me as I have increased picture size by 200px. Here is how I did my math for sanity check:
Original picture dimensions: 4134x2717
Original picture pixels: 4134x2717=11,232,078
Increased picture dimensions: 4347x2717 (added 200px vertically - white rectangle)
Increased picture pixels: 4347x2717=11,810,799
11,232,078 / 11,810,799 = 0.95100069
This 5% increase matches the increase of size of bmp image on file system 32.1MB/33.7MB= 0.95252226
So far so, good and this makes sense.
The issue I have is when I try to "Save for Web" new bmp picture with increased dimensions (added white rectangle), I get 604KB jpeg picture. What I get is: 474/604=0.78 or roughly 22% picture increase.
Considering that I have added just white rectangle and jpeg format has compression, shouldn't I get 5% or less files size increase? Can some explain to me how this works or if I am doing something wrong?