Save for Web – Not Enough Memory

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Kelly_Solheim
Aug 31, 2007
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I have a rather large animation created in CS3. When I use the "Save for Web" option, I get an error that there is not enough memory to complete the save. I need to save the animation as a gif. I have already allocated 100% of available RAM to Photoshop and still get the error. Suggestions?

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Fred_Nirque
Aug 31, 2007
It’s not RAM, it’s disk space (or scratch space) that’s the problem, I reckon.

Plus, if you’re using Windows, it is not advisable to allocate 100% RAM to Ps. Stick with the recommended 55%. It may cause the occasional slowdown, but you’ll have less lock-ups. 100% is asking for trouble.
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Kelly_Solheim
Aug 31, 2007
I changed the scratch disk to an external hard drive with plenty of memory and still no luck. Help!
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Buko
Aug 31, 2007
How much RAM do you have?

did you drop your RAM allocation to 55%
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Kelly_Solheim
Aug 31, 2007
I have 1232 available. I have tried dropping the RAM allocation to 55%.The file is 119 MB and contains about 300 layers and frames.
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Buko
Aug 31, 2007
How many GB of RAM do you have?

This is different than Available free space on your hard drive.
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Kelly_Solheim
Aug 31, 2007
I’m sorry. I meant that Photoshop says that I have 1232 MB of RAM available (of which I am now using 55% per your suggestion). I have 1.5 GB of RAM and my C drive properties says that I have 7.36 GB of Free space on my hard drive.
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Kelly_Solheim
Aug 31, 2007
Is there something I can do to make the file size smaller. Would that even help?
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Buko
Aug 31, 2007
dupe your file and delete half the layers see what happens.
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Fred_Nirque
Sep 1, 2007
"Save for web" – flatten the file first. Your file size is also too big.
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Buko
Sep 1, 2007
flatten the file first.

that would make it hard to do an animation, wouldn’t it?
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Fred_Nirque
Sep 1, 2007
Oops, I wasn’t paying attention….

Try "Save as" instead of "Save for Web". Save for Web appears to have some restrictions – layers being one. It flattens images, converts 16 to 8-bit, strips exif data etc, etc.

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