Saving JPG From PSD Bloated Size

[Travis23498974xyk2]

Hi, after this last update about 2 weeks ago, Photoshop started making my JPG's huge when I save them out from my PSD files. I'm mostly designing website banners and emails currently, where the PSD's themselves are well under 3MB, yet when I do 'Save As' to make a JPG when I'm done, no matter what quality I select on the JPG slider, the JPG file size ends up being 16-24MB! And these are small, RGB, 72dpi, 600px max width, and 200-2000px height, which normally save out to JPG's well under 100KB for the banners, and under 1MB for the emails. I've been able to work around it by doing the Export/Save for Web legacy option, but it's been pretty annoying to not just be able to quickly save a JPG like I have been for over 20 years, haha. So, I just wanted to throw this out there and see if it's a known bug that just needs fixed, or if anyone knows of a weird/random setting that I know nothing about that could fix this? I kind of doubt it's a settings issue, because I can't think of a scenario where anyone would ever need a 600px X 200px JPG to be over 16MB and unusable for the web. Thanks for any help on this!

My system: Lenovo - Intel Core i7 8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 32GB RAM, 64-bit, Windows 10 Pro.

[jazz-y]

Good day!

Yes, indeed, I see the same problem. It seems that there is some difference between the original metadata and those that imageMagick generates after format conversion, as a result, there is no access to data blocks from the script. Obviously, this problem is not related to the fact that you are using Photoshop CC2014 and Adobe XMP Core 6.0.

I can change the script so that it can see these files, however, deleting them will only be possible after they are opened in Photoshop. This will be an extremely inefficient approach, since Photoshop will re-save in general all the graphic files that it finds in the directory (this is long and pointless).

Also, the -strip ImageMagik command is unlikely to suit you, which will remove all metadata from the file during conversion. If you are familiar with command line utilities, I can recommend ExifTool by Phil Harvey - it can selectively delete individual blocks of data (I checked - it sees this section). An example of using this utility can be found in @Stephen_A_Marsh blog - Metadata Bloat - photoshop:DocumentAncestors

[Travis23498974xyk2]

Thank you so much, jazz-y! I'll give it a go. Much appreciated!

[Nancy OShea]

As @J453 said, use File > Export > Export As. 

To further reduce file size, select lower quality.  See screenshots.

Scroll down.  Set Metadata to None and Color Space to sRGB for the web.

Hope that helps.

[Travis23498974xyk2]

Thanks! This is the work around I've been doing since the issue popped up a few weeks ago.