PHOTOSHOP QUESTION

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I'm sure there is a simple answer to this question, but I'll ask it anyway.

I have a photo of a double cluster which I processed and saved through photoshop 7. When I saved the pic, it was converted from a jpeg format to a .psd format. In jpeg in was approx. 350kb in size, but in psd format it's now 16mb. I would like to email it to friends, but the new format is WAY too big. How do I change it back to a format with less memory. I tried putting the jpg extension on it, but photoshop returned an error when I tried to re-open it. Any help would be appreciated.

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David Eccles

Hi David,

The most likely cause of this is the format of the image. Open the image and then go >Image >Mode and see whether the image is 16bits/Channel or 8bits/Channel.

In order to save the image as a jpg, it must be 8bits/Channel.

If this does not solve the problem, try >flatten image<.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Maurice

Thanks Guys, I'll try it out.

When you processed the file you may have been using layers. Go to layers>flatten image, and then try to save it as a jpeg.