Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop experts

date posted 1st March 2005 18:15

i dont know whether anyone else has mentioned this but if you save a
preview with the image - it adds to the file size - use fireworks as
Tony mentioned - this compacts the jpeg to the desired amount and also
removes the preview





On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at 09:37 am, Tony Crockford wrote:

>
> At 07:05 on Tuesday, 01 Mar 2005, Warwick Sculpher wrote:
>
>>
>> This bloody Photoshop is driving me mad! I want a JPEG of about 50kb,
>> but if
>> I go Save As - JPEG and select the lowest quality the filesize is
>> still
>> huge. Then if I go Save for Web, it says the filesize is too big for
>> this
>> function!
>
> Fireworks makes great web images and can work with psd's, but if you
> want a free(almost) tool that will work with Photoshop and beat the
> filesize of it's save for web, you should look at Ignite:
>
> http://www.ignite-it.co.uk/
>
> allows you to teak all the options and take out any surplus text
> metadata that PS still includes...
>
> (send me the file off list, I'll do you a small jpg!)
>
> ;o)
>
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