did you save in tiff format and did you enable compression? Default the tiff dialog might select 'no compression', you might want to try LZW compression.
Gr, Dennis. Anonymous User wrote: > Hi! > > I am using GIMP to clean up and crop some scanned files stored in TIFF > format. The files are 50-60KB, but upon cropping GIMP increases their size to > 120KB! Even simply open-save increases the file size to 130KB or so. I am > quite perplexed! Any explanation will be gratefully acknowledged. > > PS: The file size of 120KB is after converting to 1 bit indexed format and > flattened plus using LZW compression. Otherwise, simple "save" results in a > staggering 10MB file size. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
