Strela
June 13th, 2009, 03:45 AM
I found this here:
http://idletogether.com/how-to-reduce-your-psd-files-size-using-photoshop/
and haven't tried it but it sounds reasonable and I thought someone might be interested. Might come in handy when emailing PSDs.
Basically you put a white layer over the top of it-- new layer, fill with white. What this does, according to the article, is to remove the preview thumbnail.
Then it goes on to say that you can zip the file for even more dramatic savings.
An aside-- You can store files inside of a JPEG. Rename the jpg to .rar, open it in Winrar, drop files in, close it, then change the extension back to jpg and nobody will ever know what's really in there... unless they look at every single jpg on your memory stick or whatever. Like, actually going through the RAR process, because the JPEG will appear normal if viewed in an image viewer. The reason it works is because JPEG standard ignores everything after the JPEG footer and RAR ignores everything before the RAR header.
Large files would probably draw notice but smaller ones would not because of the large size range of JPEG files.
Cool, eh?
http://idletogether.com/how-to-reduce-your-psd-files-size-using-photoshop/
and haven't tried it but it sounds reasonable and I thought someone might be interested. Might come in handy when emailing PSDs.
Basically you put a white layer over the top of it-- new layer, fill with white. What this does, according to the article, is to remove the preview thumbnail.
Then it goes on to say that you can zip the file for even more dramatic savings.
An aside-- You can store files inside of a JPEG. Rename the jpg to .rar, open it in Winrar, drop files in, close it, then change the extension back to jpg and nobody will ever know what's really in there... unless they look at every single jpg on your memory stick or whatever. Like, actually going through the RAR process, because the JPEG will appear normal if viewed in an image viewer. The reason it works is because JPEG standard ignores everything after the JPEG footer and RAR ignores everything before the RAR header.
Large files would probably draw notice but smaller ones would not because of the large size range of JPEG files.
Cool, eh?