New project files are vary large

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April 30, 2021
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When I set up to work on a new project my file sizes are far too big. A 2000x3000px image at a resolution of 300px opens with just a white background and at 418mb. This happens for all files I try to create new and other images I open in PS. Everything seems to be excesivly large. I read about metadata and running scrips to remove legacy metadata but cant seem to find clear information on if thats the fix I need and if it is how do I do it. Im pretty new to photoshop so any help with this would be appriciated. Thanks in advance.

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) and the Image Size dialog visible?

What are the image’s Color Mode and bit depth?

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SteveBCBAuthor

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I hope this shows everything you wanted to know. This is a brand new project with only the white background layer and it is 17.2mb which seems far too large for me. I am in rgb and I don't know what bit depth means.

JJMack

Community Expert

The file size will vary depending on the file type layered not layered compress not compressed. The 17.2 MB you see there is image size. 3000x2000 pixels = 6,000,000 pixels 8Bit Color is 8bit red, 8 bit green and 8 Bit Blue. So each pixel requires 3 bytes. 6Mx3B = 18MB decmal. I think 17.2 must be the memory hex size.

JJMack

Community Expert

When I think of project I would expect the layered file will be used Layer file can be come huge when you use things like Placed embedded images. A Collage template that has 50 smart object Images layers will have the contents of 50 other documents in its contents. Image file include layered and RAW files. Layered document can contain up to 8,000 layers. Layered documents may need to be save as PSB files the get around the 2 and 4 GB file size limits that PSD and Tiff have.

There are Photoshop scripts that can strip/delete ancestor meta data in a document. Save for web and export can strip all meta data.

JJMack

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SteveBCBAuthor

Participant

These are new files that are very large with only a background layer and no smart objects. In the other post in this thread you can see a 3000x2000px white background at 72ppx is showing a file size of 17.2mb.

I read some things about scripts to remove metadata and ancestry metadata but I don't know how to creat a script or make a .jsx file which is what I think the script file type was. Also, would that be a solution to this problem even though I didn't add anything to the file that would contain metadata? This has me stumped.

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