Flatten your photographs

[posiview]

I was editing a series of photographs in Photoshop last night and didn't have time to finish the editing so I just saved with the layers. There was a warning that saving the layers would increase the size of the file and I thought, can't be that bad...

Anyway, the 3 photograph file is 429MB in size....I was astounded. Never realised how much data was stored in these files...

Might have to do a search to see if any more have been saved and not finished.

Cheers.

 

[Photodiva]

Well, might be large but maintains your ability to edit. I've had some that get pretty big. You can selectively flatten some layers and not others when you've finished, but I always keep the layered file and save a copy as a flattened jpg if I send it anywhere. Storage is relatively cheap. Can't really see a problem. I wouldn't just flatten an image to save space.