Search found 5 matches

by joshk
2013-07-02T08:35:28-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: PSD File Size Too Large
Replies: 10
Views: 6144

Re: PSD File Size Too Large

snibgo, Your post about 8/16bit made me check the identify output again...found something interesting. Please open: gimp-export.txt : https://www.dropbox.com/s/yiy8cbvn7bj64cj/gimp-export.txt IM-created.txt : https://www.dropbox.com/s/7km30ancpjbhiw5/IM-created.txt IM-created-RLE.txt : https://www ...
by joshk
2013-07-02T07:49:04-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: PSD File Size Too Large
Replies: 10
Views: 6144

Re: PSD File Size Too Large

I will eventually be zipping the PSD files so I went ahead and zipped one up. https://www.dropbox.com/s/uv9ajbdbps5w3kt/IM-created.psd.zip https://www.dropbox.com/s/xdemm7b7ouamgs6/GIMP-export-test.psd.zip The IM created PSD is zipped to 114KB and the GIMP exported PSD is 27KB. I'm not going to fuss ...
by joshk
2013-07-02T07:25:20-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: PSD File Size Too Large
Replies: 10
Views: 6144

Re: PSD File Size Too Large

Unfortunately, PSD is the chosen format. It's great that the TIFF files can be compressed to such a small size; I wish the same could be done for PSDs! I have quite a few PSD files and I would rather not have to open them all in GIMP and export them to get the reduced file size. Could the problem be ...
by joshk
2013-07-02T05:55:56-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: PSD File Size Too Large
Replies: 10
Views: 6144

Re: PSD File Size Too Large

I did try to compress the PSD file using -compress RLE It reduced the file size by ~10MB; a 20% reduction is good, but I want the file size to be closer to ~1MB that GIMP produces. According to the identify below, GIMP uses RLE compression; maybe the compression algorithms are different? Here's the ...
by joshk
2013-07-01T06:11:24-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: PSD File Size Too Large
Replies: 10
Views: 6144

PSD File Size Too Large

Hello, I am creating a layered PSD file comprised of PNG files also generated in IM. I noticed that the file size of the PSD created by IM is ~47MB. I opened the file in GIMP, v 2.8 for OS X, and exported the file as a PSD (making no changes to the file) and the resulting file is ~1MB. Why the ...