Size matters!

Hi All

I have this image that is too large (96mb) how do I minimise its size with out it dropping below 300dpi (its for print). Otherwise is there a way to twick photoshop (version 6) to run better as it is slowing down terribly. I use a PC pentium 4 with 512 mb ram.

Thanks

ocube

You can't really reduce the file size without losing quality for print... Most print files are even bigger than that. But your computer should not be slowing down too much with that much ram and CPU speed. Do you have a lot of other programs running?

yes, I normally have explorer and outlook open.

One thing that slows you down tremendously is how many layers nad layer styles you have. At some point it is good to take what you have, make a copy, then flatten what layers you can. You will see an improvement there.

IE and outlook are lite programs.

Hi guys

actually I tried marble's idea and it worked fine. I had about 7 layers with images of 25-70 mb , so I edited the images in a different file brought them into the original file and then copied and merged them. If I decide to change anything, I still have the original sfely tucked away.

Thanks a million guys.

ocube