teeny tiny tiff

[fatespawn]

I've tried photoshop forums, but they're useless, so now I'm turning to you wonderful people on livejournal in the hopes that someone out there can answer this

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[illeryana]

I know what you're talking about, though I don't know why it does that. Try saving at a lower quality maybe?

[illeryana]

Just realized you were talking about tiffs and not jpgs, so there's no quality option. Nevermind.

[fatespawn]

I wish it was that simple, but TIF's don't really have a lower quality. They have two compression modes, but the program we're using doesn't read either of them. And the images are so small that those compressions actually increase the file size anyway.

I think that Photoshop may just be sticking in a ton of header information. Boo.

[baldchik]

I have always wondered the same damn thing!!! Let me know if you find out.

[fatespawn]

Definitely. Although it looks like we might take another rout and try to just turn all these images into an avi. You don't know of a free/cheap video editor that will add images to a video and has enough precision to make each image display for exactly 700ms, do you?

Also, in the interests of networking and all that, I know you're like a million steps ahead of me, but I've started training in Maya and Poser and PS and a ton of different movie/sound editors, so if aggravating questions about any of those things come up you can add me to your list of people to check with for possible solutions.

[baldchik]

I think Quicktime Pro will make a movie out of images and you can set exactly how long you want them to be. I used that for my stop motion films and its only $30. Feel free to hit me up with A/V / video editing questions if you want, was my job for years to answer those, so I dont mind!

[nothingoth]

can you email me the file? I can have a look and see what I can come up with.
djrift at gmail.

[fatespawn]

The files...shouldn't be compressed. The program it's been playing in is retarded and incapable of reading anything except uncompressed tiff, bmp, and avi's using one specific codec.

There are no layers.

There was cake two days ago. It was delicious. But now it's gone.

[projectparadox]

Save it as a Tif, uncheck the option to "preserve PhotoShop editing capability", and be sure to flatten your layers. According to the web designer that sits next to me, that should solve much of your file size problem.

[fatespawn]

I appreciate it, but no such luck. It's already flattened and I don't see that option. Probably a version difference (using CS3 here), but I'm pretty sure that I've unchecked everything in the save dialogue that indicates retaining information.

the mystery continues.