http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/ A Web Design Software forum thread at WPDFD.com en-us 05/23/04, 144 43 2004 2004:%i:1085352211 18:43:31 06/07/13, 158 49 2013 2013:%i:1370594943 04:49:03 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NineLabs Framework Feed Generator sitemaster@wpdfd.com sitemaster@wpdfd.com http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p949
Up until now I've been using my old Photoshop 5.5, but recently I've been playing with Photoshop CS.  I really like it, except that it seems save files at extremely overblown sizes.  This morning I did a little test -- I created the exact same file (simple black text over a white background) in both versions of Photoshop, and 5.5 saved the file at 20KB while CS saved it at 64KB.  Does anyone know why this happens, and have any tips on how to change it?  I haven't bouhgt CS yet -- I'm just testing it out -- but had planned on buying it in the near future.  Before I do, I want to find out if I'll be stuck with massive file sizes on everything...]]> 05/23/04, 144 43 2004 2004:%i:1085352211 18:43:31 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p949 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p950 05/23/04, 144 57 2004 2004:%i:1085367425 22:57:05 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p950 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p951 05/24/04, 145 24 2004 2004:%i:1085387059 04:24:19 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p951 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p952 crumpet said:
Sorry -- I was saving as JPG.

Okay, if you examime the other factors that can affect a JPEG's apparent size (other than the program used)

There a lot of setting in there and some of them are different in CS.

For instance, the quality slider in Save as... (JPEG) now goes up to 120 instead of 100 - so the same numeric value will give different amounts of compression between 5.5 and CS. There there are the various optimisations that can be switched on and off.

Save as... and Save for Web give different results.

If you have a different OS or hard disk, the reported size can vary substantially because of the different block sizes.

With JPEGs, it's quite difficult to make comparisons but you would need to make as many aspects as common as possible.]]> 05/24/04, 145 14 2004 2004:%i:1085390072 05:14:32 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/web_design_software/photoshop_cs_file_sizes/#p952