: Reduce image size Hi I made a poster in photoshop but the image size is really big 15mb, as I live in a small town and have to email this to printers it is a bit of a problem. I was

@Lee3735518

you can reduce filesize by


flattening all layers to one.
reducing excessive resolution amount. 300 dpi is enough to print a3, a4 size.
you can try app like 7zip for compressing if they use compressed format like .7z or .zip .tar .rar.

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@Turnbaugh909

File > Save As... choose JPG.

Set the Quality to 12 and save.

DO NOT use Save for Web, use Save As..

The difference is Save for Web will save an RGB image at low resolution. By Choosing Save As.. you can save a CMYK JPG at high resolution.

The quality setting of 12 will retain most of the quality of the file. In fact, you probably won't be able to tell the difference between the jpg and your original file. And the resulting jpg will be much smaller in terms of file size.

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@Carla748

You can still email it using Google Drive, dropbox like services.


upload it on your google drive
share your link to your printer.


You will really lose quality if you reduce its size.

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