You don't gain any more detail by upsampling it a bunch. The original JPEG image is already 283 PPI if printed A3 size. Why not open that photo instead, and crop it to A3 dimensions with the crop tool? No need to resample it. Not sure why you're making such a large blank image just to place a single image into it. The ones I indicated are acceptable standards but your printer could require 300dpi in both case. You should ask your printer what resolution he prefers to receive the file in. Then you can export your PSD file at the right size. So I'm not that surprised if the final file size of your PSD is around 1,5 GB. Just do the same steps as above but dont 'boost' the resolution to 266dpi, keep it at 200dpi. This gives me a minimum of 1112 MB of image data. compatibility on), it will not only save each individual layer and god knows what else, but also a flattened/merged copy of the entire image – an additional 330 MB of data right there. If you copy/pasted/convert-to-smart-object we would have roughly 500 MB. So if the JPEG is embedded we're talking roughly 452 MB. In addition comes the file size of embedded image. If you place that image into your very large 9000x12000 composition as an Embedded Smart Object and scaled it up to 9600x12000 so it covers your 9000x12000 canvas, then the amount of data for that layer is now 9600 px * 12000 px * 4 channels (RGB+Transparency) * 8 bit = 3686400000 bits = 450 MB. When saved as a PSD it will be effectively uncompressed. It can contain large amount of data in layers. For Save As Type (Windows) or Format (Mac OS), choose Adobe PDF, and then click.
#Save psd as an pdf too big windows
Click on the ‘compatibility’ tab and check the box ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for’ and select Windows 7/8 operating system from the drop down menu and proceed with the installation. It also supports Gray, CMYK, and RGB etc color coding format. Specify a name and location for the file.
#Save psd as an pdf too big driver
Once opened (decompressed) it is over 50 MB of image data bit/channel). Right-click on the driver setup file and click on ‘properties’. After hiding your layers, re-save your PSD by choosing File > Save (Ctrl + S). You’ll know that all your layers are hidden when the canvas is blank and when there are no eye icons on the left of the layer names. The "2 MB" image you added is only 2 MB when heavily compressed as JPEG. One way is to select all the layers in your Layers panel and then in Photoshop’s main bar choose Layer > Hide All Layers. (If your image file is 16-bits/channel double all of this). So just making a blank document, that is the starting point. Ps: Make sure you are looking at the actual file size on disk, and not the "image size" shown inside Photoshop (that is something different).Ī flattened 9000x12000 px (RGB/8) image is around 330 MB of uncompressed image data.
And 300 PPI is normally overkill for that. PPI equals 76x101 cm – the size of a large poster.