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October 17, 2018
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Photoshop "save as jpg/png" file sizes too big

  • October 17, 2018
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hi everyone.

i've been having this issue since photoshop cc2017, and now having upgraded to cc2019, i found out that the problem still persists...

whenever i want to save a file using "save as > jpg" the file size is too large, and also remains fixed whether i set the quality to 0(min) or 12(max).

let's say, i want to save a 1080x1920 @14451451 RGB file (which i do quite frequently)... regardless of the content on the design (even if it's a blank white page), the file size is always 27,3MB which is both erroneous and extremely large. when i do the same operation with "safe for web" command, it's usually under 1MB.

this problem also occurs when trying to save as png, with almost exactly the same file size as 24,7MB regardless of the content...

this happens ONLY when i try to export photoshop files. if i open another file type which is made OUTSIDE PHOTOSHOP, save as functions as it should... but after exporting my files, even reopening and saving again does not reduce file size.

I ALREADY KNOW THE SAVE FOR WEB FUNCTION, so please only recommend a solution that will fix this problem. as i search the forum for previous entries, people seem to have that problem for nearly 4 years and yet no solution or update has been presented.

thank you!

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Participant
October 16, 2021

I just had a 300x250 @14451451 jpg that I tried exporting using "Save for Web (Legacy)" in Photoshop 2021 and the file size was 55mb!
In the Save for Web dialog box I set Metadata to "None" and the file sized was reduced to 61kb!

Thanks for this thread!

lambiloon
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2018

Hi i suggest you use safe for web option for this in export or use its shortcut atl + ctrl + shift + s....Thanks

Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional
D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2018

The usual reason for this is metadata, specifically "ancestors metadata" - a history record of the file's content, accumulating with copy/paste operations. I suppose it's there for forensic purposes.

Save For Web strips metadata, so that's why it saves at smaller size.

If that's not it, something's very wrong.

ufukc_Author
Participant
October 17, 2018

makes sense, but even then a 26mb of metadata doesn't sound quite possible to me... and also note that setting the quality all the way down does not even reduce 100kb from the file size, which should not be possible either...

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2018

You'd be surprised. We've seen a lot of examples of ancestors metadata in that size range. 26MB is perfectly possible, believe it or not.

The whole point here is that metadata is the bulk of the file, so that's why reducing quality has little effect.

One of the regulars here has a script to strip this (if you don't want to use Save For Web).