What might cause this?

[Darcy Baldwin]

I know it's not enough information...but I have to go get all the boys and hit the road. But just in case it sounds familiar.

I worked on a layout using Summer Simmons Atomic Junkie. I worked the layout in PS7, with the only thing being done differently is adjusting leading to fit the notebook paper. When I adjust the size down to 600x600 @300dpi, the size of the file is still is out the roof (over 230K for the small size)- which is normally around 130-150 normally). It's the only time that this has ever happened to me. I haven't worked with something else, yet, to see if it's the problem - it's just weird that it happened now. I even deleted the work, and started over, just in case. I got the same results.

I can't upload it to SBB because it gets a weird error and has a "negative" instead of positive picture there. It works on DST & 2peas, but the quality is weird.

Here it is.... http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2454&limit=last1

I've walked through the steps about five times trying to see if I did something odd, and I can't find anything different at all (except the papers, but I can't see them doing this).

Thanks for reading this far..if you have theories, I'd love to hear them - I'll play around more tonight when we get back.

[Hom74]

I *really* don't know the answer but it drives me bonzers when I get a LO that won't resize down like all the rest. that's when I use the FILE ==> SAVE FOR WEB option instead to save the JPG. There's a slider you can move around to get it down to a size you like.

HTH.

[daisyrose]

I've got ps7 too, but I've never seen anything do that. You said you're open to theories...any chance the paper is just huge to begin with? (I've never used her stuff so I'm just throwing this out there) If you click on an idividual .jpeg of the paper and choose properties how big is it? I just did a random check of papers in my folders and most papers are between 2 and 8 mb.

[Darcy Baldwin]

No..they're running about 4mb each.

I'm starting to think it has to do with color embedding (CMYK vs RGB). I had the problem with another layout I did right after that had the same profiles...but on a 3rd one I did tonight, which was RGB, I didn't have the problem.

I reposted the question with that in mind a little while ago. I even thought that maybe I hadn't been flattening the smaller files..but I've double-checked through the process a few hundred times, and they are flattened LOL.

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

[Teresa Victor]

Not exactly sure what to say, but I would definitely second Karen's suggestion to use the "Save for Web" option. I've never had a problem posting using that.....saves it as a jpeg at 72dpi which is fine for web-viewing.

Hope that helps!