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It’s no good folks, I’ll have to ask this question again, I know I’ve asked it before but I can’t find it. I’m running PSCS2 in Windows Professional 2000 and I don’t understand the vast discrepancy between the left document size figure displayed in the status bar of a PS document and the file size given by Explorer. I’ve read that the left figure "…. represents the printing size of the image – approximately the size of the saved, flattened file in Adobe Photoshop format". So should not that figure be near enough the same as the figure given by Explorer?
For example, a photograph I have that is 1.98MB according to Explorer is down as 11.6M in that left figure in the status bar. So, I have two questions:-
1. Is ‘MB’ in Explorer the same as ‘M’ in PS?
2. Why such a difference? I don’t expect them to be exactly the same but crumbs!!!!
I think I understand the second figure in the status bar. That should get bigger and bigger the more layers there are, but shouldn’t the first figure stay virtually the same as the Explorer figure.
For example, a photograph I have that is 1.98MB according to Explorer is down as 11.6M in that left figure in the status bar. So, I have two questions:-
1. Is ‘MB’ in Explorer the same as ‘M’ in PS?
2. Why such a difference? I don’t expect them to be exactly the same but crumbs!!!!
I think I understand the second figure in the status bar. That should get bigger and bigger the more layers there are, but shouldn’t the first figure stay virtually the same as the Explorer figure.
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