If you don't mind me asking, what's some like meta data you could share on what makes for a 5GB photoshop file? I'm just really curious at how a single photoshop file gets that large. Does it contain a bunch of workflows and auxiliary assets or something?
That makes sense I need to go look up how big photo files are now I guess.. It has been many years since I used photoshop for editing photos (or at all I suppose); my last camera (excluding my phone) was a Nikon D70 (only 6 megapixels).
I was surprised recently when my GF was uploading photos from our camera to our file server and it's like 50MB per file and that the last few months of photos was like 100GB of data to upload.
It could be a really large render of a `dot` graph. That's the only kind of 5GB PNGs I've had to work with.
While on that topic, anyone have any good ideas in situations like that? Rendering a really large SVG from scratch is not feasible, also most SVG renderers actually fail on really large SVGs in my experience. I've always had to export as PS or just direct render into PNG.
I recently had a graph that dot refused to render to PNG since its maximum buffer was too small. A scaling factor that made it fit also made it unreadable.
We rendered to a 500MB SVG and opened it in Firefox, which worked quite well after the initial load. Bonus: we used the dev tools to navigate the thing.
My wife creates prints for our fabric printer, and the PSD files are often larger than 2GB, containing for example a 55" wide image that is 6+ yards long, at 150-300 dpi with a bunch of layers. Somehow her low-specced 2015 Macbook Pro 13" has handled this type of work just fine, as long as there's enough free space for the scratch disk.
My friend designs mobile apps in Photoshop, when I built him a new computer he opened up a 12gb photoshop file to see how it performed because his old iMac crashed. (it was buttery smooth on the new computer and opened almost instantly)
The canvas size is insane, and has like 100 different views of screens all layered with 100s of folders with 100s of layers.
He used to do 1 photoshop file per screen until he took that idea from someone else.
When I was studying I much preferred fireworks. It was awesome.
I asked my friend last night what his largest photoshop file is but he said he no longer uses photoshop for about a year now. Everything is in sketch. And he’s back on an iMac. I’ve never heard of sketch.
Bert Monroy is known for his hyper-photo-realistic style combining Illustrator with Photoshop, and makes extremely high resolution deeply layered images, on the order of 6.52 GB flattened, with 700,000 layers. He's been using Photoshop since before Adobe had it, wrote the first book on Photoshop, and teaches classes about it. His work is on display at the Computer History Museum!
This is the largest image I have ever created, pushing the boundaries of the software and hardware as far as they can go. It was unveiled at the Photo Plus Expo in New York on October 28, 2010 as a work in progress. A 25 foot light box was constructed to display the piece that has been printed on a new material being introduced by Epson.
• The image size is 60 inches by 300 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 6.52 Gigabytes.
• It took four years to create.
• The painting is comprised of almost fifteen thousand individual Photoshop and Illustrator files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 700,000 layers.
Excerpts from Wide-Format Imaging Magazine
Nov/Dec 2010
...Displayed at this year’s PhotoPlus Expo in NYC, Monroy’s “Times Square” is action-packed with color and detail. People lean forward to study the print’s many stories depicted under the illuminated signs and bright lights of the city’s iconic landmarks. Hundreds of colorful characters can be seen throughout the image in groups, traveling solo, pointing at the sights, dodging yellow taxis, aiming cameras, shaking their fists, chatting amongst each other, dragging luggage, gazing longingly out of windows, and in some cases even thwarting crime.
Printed on Epson’s DisplayTrans Media with the Epson Stylus Pro 11880 printer, Monroy’s masterpiece is the culmination of four years of work. The digital artist created each element using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. He built the 6.52GB image pixel by pixel, using more than 750,000 Photoshop layers. Monroy spent countless hours creating intensely detailed scenes, the likenesses of his family, friends and many luminaries in the imaging industry, and landmarks in and around Times Square.
The image is a “who’s who” in the world of digital imaging, featuring individuals who have made a significant impact in the industry. Adobe Photoshop founders John and Thomas Knoll stand in the main foreground, surrounded by digital imaging experts such as Russell Brown and Jeff Schewe. An assortment of photographers includes John Paul Caponigro, Greg Gorman, Jay Maisel and Jack Reznicki, each telling their own story. Monroy even included a cameo of his younger self, looking out from the window of a yellow taxicab, reliving a brief stint as a New York taxi driver.
A defining moment in his quest for new digital art techniques was seeing “Times Square” printed for the first time with Epson’s new backlit material designed for ink jet printing. “I was halfway into the Times Square project when I heard Epson was developing DisplayTrans Backlight Media for creating backlit signage to be used in a lightbox,” said Monroy.
The opaque, polyester film has an opacifying layer that diffuses light throughout the printed image so it is evenly lit. "That extraordinary final print of 'Times Square' on DisplayTrans Media with the Epson 118000 printer was exactly the way I'd envisioned the result. The colors are beautiful and vibrant, the blacks are rich and dark, and the flesh tones are warm and natural," said Monroy...
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