Participating Frequently

Question

Too easily creating 4gb+ tiffs.

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
December 28, 2018
2 replies
672 views

Could some one explain to me what i am possibly doing wrong.

I take a single 25mb raw photo, some camera raw processing, a few layer adjustments and a few layers of high pass sharpening, (15 layers total) and i cant save it as a layered tiff because its over 4gb. In the bottom left corner it is saying 138M /1.8G for the Document size!

If i ZIP the layer compression it will save as a TIFF at 3.88gb

And ive also had this problem with 3 photo panoramas too and just just some processing and simple sharpening.

From what i understood a 4gb tif would be a massive hq many layered file.

Ive been on to Adobe online help, they claimed to of fixed it by selecting 'discard layers and save a copy.'

Thanks for any help.

This topic has been closed for replies.

JJMack

Community Expert

Sounds very large for only 15 layers. What is the documents canvas size and what kind of layers are in your document. Are you recording history as well as layers in your layered Tiff file.

JJMack

R

RawphilAuthor

Participating Frequently

The canvas size is 55.45cm x 37.01cm.

The layers are

Background,

Background copy - Smart object - camera raw filter.

Spot heal brush layer

Expos Adjust layer

2 x Hue Sat Adjust layer

Curves Adjust layer

2 x Brightness Adjust Layer

6 x Smart object layers - High Pass filter

Smart object layer - Unsharp filter.

I believe i am not recording the history as its not there when i re open the file.

R

RawphilAuthor

Participating Frequently

You still have not stated what size canvas your document has. Is its resolution 1px per cm or 1000 px per cm is you canvas size 55px by 37px or is it 55,450px by 37,010px a large or small canvas size. Are you trying to do HDR and current in 32bit color depth. Are any layers place embedded image files the contain large tiff files you seem to use. What is making your 15 layers document data so large.

Please see above.

"What is making your 15 layers document data so large."

This is exactly what i want to understand.

Mohammad.Harb

Community Expert

Why are you saving it as a layered tiff instead of psb (photoshop big file)?

R

RawphilAuthor

Participating Frequently

1. Tiff seems to be the preferred option on all the tutorials ive watched and read

2. Lightroom dose not support PSB which is what i use to organise my photos.

My concern here though is what am i doing that the files want to save so large. From memory the same image was 4.5gb saved in psb format.

JJMack

Community Expert

Lightroom does not support layers so why save a layered tiff, psd or psb if it LR is what you are concerned with. Lighroom's Library system is used for image organizing. Adobe Bridge can also be used to organize images. Photoshop support layers and enable you to organize your image editing work you do on an image and work in an none destructive way. Lightroom is not a full blown image editor it does not support layers you can not create composite images with LR. LR does not support Photoshop layers.

JJMack

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded