Photoshop file size

[MPCSound]

Hello everyone. I have a question about saving in Photoshop. I started doing edits for star trails, and for obvious reasons, the file size is enormous when the piece is completed. After a lot of work, I can never save the project, to make small edits with, as a 2G limit is attached to the files.

Are there any ways, besides lowering the resolution of the original images, to store the project for later? I was thinking a linked file solution, so that every image is not saved in the .psd file and lowers the size of the file to metadata only. I am new and am not familiar with every bell and whistle available to me ... Yet!

If there is a workflow for this, I would love to read more about it.

Thanks!

Michael P. Clark


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[Tom Mann]

Sure - just save it as a PSB (not PSD) file. See:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html

Perhaps u are already doing the following, but, of course, you should first consider less brute force methods of reducing the size such as whether or not u can combine some layers, work with only 8 bits per channel instead of 16 or 32 bpc (... I have no idea what u are currently using), use adjustment layers instead of storing each adjustment in a separate real layer, etc, etc.

HTH,

Tom M

 

[MPCSound]

Thank you, Tom. Assume the worst, as I have not implemented a workflow for file size management yet. Thank you for that link. I am reading up on everything you mentioned. Being Star Trails, I can certainly combine many of these layers.

Thanks!

Michael


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[MPCSound]

Perhaps u are already doing the following, but, of course, you should first consider less brute force methods of reducing the size

Is this saying that a PSB is compressing at its own accord, or other file size manipulations? As I noticed a decrease in size from the "Doc:" measurement in PS, and the final saved PSB by 800MB.

Thanks

Michael