Re: OT: Reducing File Size with Photoshop

[Paul Stenquist]

Some people on the digital darkroom forum have experimented with this 
and found that doing it in one step is superior to a lot of small 
steps. Make sure your PS preference for file size changes is set to 
"Bicubic Smoother." That appears to be the best choice in most cases. 
(That's probably more important for increasing file size.)
On Nov 13, 2004, at 1:58 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:

I recently heard that the best way to reduce a large file to one that's
substantially smaller is by using a step-by-step process rather than 
just
making the reduction in one step. I've numerous 4000ppi scanned B&W 
film
images of about 40mb and I want to reduce it to 100ppi with a wide
dimension of 800-900 pixels. Does anyone know what the procedure is for
doing a step-by-step reduction?  I tried it by going from 4000ppi to
2000ppi to 1000ppi, etc., but the results were soft and mushy.  Is 
there a
better way to reduce the size and rez of such files?

Shel