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Photoshop saving issue (FILES TOO LARGE)

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June 23, 2015
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Hello,

Whenever I'm attempting to save a JPEG in Photoshop CC, even the smallest size JPEG comes out at around 6MB at least. I've tried everything from rebuilding the file to flattening all the layers, yet nothing seems to have worked so far. I'm trying to create web graphics and the file should typically be around ~100KB. Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to fix this? I've tried restarting the computer and resetting the preferences file for Photoshop but it still won't work.

ValentinaFaussone

Participant

Hi, the quickest and foolproof way to bypass the issue is:

- check the original file dimensions

- create a brand new file with the same exact dimensions (an exact twin file, basically)

- duplicate all levels of the original file, straight into the new file via the level palette

- go to menu file > export > save levels in files

Since the file you created is new, it has no annoying metadata. The exported jpgs or whatever will be "normal" and not data inflated.

My exported jpgs are now 130 KB vs. 7 MB that came from the previous "metadata-bloated" file.

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Edwhard5CB3

Participant

Hello there.
Same symptoms but with a PSD file.
My file is a JPG base, with a few layers (I had to change a sign in the photo, simulate with a text layer, converted to raster, added 2 effects, inner glow and gradient overlay).
In my experience with a overblown file size I found this:
- One specific layer was the problem. A duplucated a shadow shape, then apply a gaussian effect. I made something weird with my manupulation, with Move action. After that, the file go from 10 Mb to 178 Mb.
- I deleted the layer who cause RAM to fill up to 20 Gb. How did I found this? It's the only layer making the cursor change to the "thinking one".
After deletion, immediatly the fil became 10 Mb again.

The RAM was still fill up to 20 Gb. I had to quit Photoshop and restart. Now it's clean.
Hope it helps some. Cheers.

robertl12020539

Participant

I had the same problem. Nothing was working until I converted my file to 16 bits and it solved my issue.

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aka_am1r

Participant

I have the same problem. When i save JPG file size from "file>save as" was very large like 26MB but with "file>Export>Export as" file size reduce to 368KB. I think it's bug in new versions because i just have this problem some times in CC, Before that i didn't have.

davescm

Community Expert

What makes you think it is a bug? Have you followed the thread, including the previous post by Stephen ?

Save As saves with the metadata , Export strips it out. It is the metadata that bloats the files and comes in with the document - hence the term Ancestor Metadata.

Dave

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plojscherEinsatz

Inspiring

hahaha, i just came along this, too. awesome how professional this piece of software seems to be coded. a jpg width 150x36 pixels was saved as a 1M file. sure, one can export for web, but still this one remains ridiculous. what drugs do they take at adobe?

D Fosse

Community Expert

You may have read the thread, but you haven't understood it. These file sizes are the result of copy/paste operations, done by people, not Photoshop.

The metadata is there as a record of file history, nothing else.

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plojscherEinsatz

Inspiring

really?? are you telling me i don't know when i open a file, size it down and save it. where is the copy and paste operation? nowhere!

i came to this thread by searching for an according bug.

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Anonymous

Hi All,

I got a solution for that issue.

I am just saving file(png, jpg, gif) and again opening the same file(png, jpg, gif) in photoshop and save it again.

it solved my problem every time.

You can also try the same method.

- Pravin

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essig-peppard

Participant

This just started with me yesterday! The only thing I can think of is I'm collaborating with another artist on a gig - he's working on a Mac and sent me a PSD he was working on so I could wrap up (unknown version of photoshop on his end but I'm running at the latest version).

Now, any asset originating from his PSD saves as a 118.8MB JPEG (regardless of changes in DPI or composition dimensions). The JPEG file size/quality slider results in only a single MB difference between 0 and 10 on the slider.

This applies to even to any flattened images that originated from content in his PSD.

D Fosse

Community Expert

essig-peppard wrote
The only thing I can think of

This has been explained several times over, if you scroll up a bit and read a few of the latest posts, like #73 by Stephen A Marsh.

Use Save For Web or Export to strip the metadata.

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essig-peppard

Participant

Thanks! It looks like his file is experiencing the bloated metadata problem and it's carrying over into any visuals I use from his PSD. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer and I'm a bit too close to the finish line on this gig to run the metadata removal script without knowing exactly how it would affect my own work/files.

Looks like I'll have to look into it once I'm wrapped.

rickburress

Inspiring

This just happened to us on Mac OS Sierra and Photoshop cc2017. A file reporting in the lower left corner it was 144mb, flattened, no extra layers or channels, 8-bit, RGB, ACTUALLY saved as a 956mb file to the Hard drive.

The only workaround was to create a new file of the same dimensions and drag and drop the Background layer to the new document. Only then did it save as 144mb.

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derrickwills

Participant

The problem is a Corrupted/Bloated Meta Data File.

SOLUTION:

CREATE a NEW DOCUMENT using same dimensions and dpi
DRAG Layers from old document to new document
DELETE corrupted Document
WORK AS NORMAL

That should be an easy work around.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Hi derrickwills– one needs to double check the actual metadata before assuming corruption. If the excessive file size is due to DocumentAncestors metadata and not due to corruption, creating a new blank file and dragging over the layer will carry over the bloat and will not reduce file size. P.S. Rather than dragging, using the Apply Image command to “stamp” data between documents does not carry over any embedded DocumentAncestors metadata.