Hey, guys! I originally posted this over at Photoshop General Discussion, and was told you might be able to help me figure out what's going on. Original post:
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I have an action that saves my images for my clients as 2460x1640 JPG at quality 8. Up until around July 25th, each image saved this way came out to about 200-600KB, which is very convenient for uploading and sharing. Since that time, however, all such images saved in this manner have sizes between 2-4MB. This is much, much less convenient, considering I deliver images to clients by the dozens.
I have not opened Adobe Application Manager to update Photoshop or anything of the sort. This started happening on its own. Why?
I changed the quality of saves to 6, and there's little to no difference in file size - they still end up at 2-4MB.
Has anyone encountered this, or is anyone able to replicate it? Help!
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Additional info after discussion:
1.) Doing the action steps manually results in a lower file size like normal. The action itself seems to be what's creating the problem.
2.) Re-recording the action provides either no change in results or, strangely, temporary semi-effective change in results. I've re-recorded it twice. The first time, it still gave very large file sizes. The second time, it gave 800KB-1.5MB file sizes (still a bit too large, and at lower quality) for a while. Then when I had more work to do later, it started giving me 2-4MB file sizes again.
3.) Resetting preferences has had no effect.
4.) Had the Photoshop CC version previous to CC 2014 when first posting. I have since installed CC 2014 and there's no change in results.
I appreciate any input! Thanks!
-Tom