file size in nik collection

paul04

Senior Member
I have been trying out nik collection over the last couple of days, And one thing I have noticed is the file size when saving a edited photo, 137mb,

and its saved as a tiff image.

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J-see

Senior Member
I have been trying out nik collection over the last couple of days, And one thing I have noticed is the file size when saving a edited photo, 137mb,

and its saved as a tiff image.

That's not an abnormal size when you use an uncompressed TiFF format. Unless cropped, all my processed shots are 100+.

I don't have Nik but I know LR lets me specify the format for external editing and one of them is TiFF. Check if something similar happens to you. When layered usually TiFF or PSD is used.
 

paul04

Senior Member
Are you flattening the layers before you same them?

Only just started using it, so not quite sure what flattening layers is.

I open the file in lightroom, then open nik collection from there, edit then save, and that's when I got the file size of 137mb.

If I then work on the file in lightroom, then save it, I can select the % of file size.

When I have finished, I have 2 files of the same picture, the 1 save in nik and the 1 saved in lightroom.
 

J-see

Senior Member
Only just started using it, so not quite sure what flattening layers is.

I open the file in lightroom, then open nik collection from there, edit then save, and that's when I got the file size of 137mb.

If I then work on the file in lightroom, then save it, I can select the % of file size.

When I have finished, I have 2 files of the same picture, the 1 save in nik and the 1 saved in lightroom.

Check your LR plugin-settings. There are save options where you can define what format LR export to an external editor and how that format is compressed.

You can also define if it exports the original, a copy with LR edits and something else I don't remember right now.

If you use copy, it keeps making copies of that file each time you export to another editor which result in those edit-edit-edit names.
 
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paul04

Senior Member
If you use copy, it keeps making copies of that file each time you export to another editor which result in those edit-edit-edit names.


Yes that correct, I did a few edits, and then had 4 files of the same picture, each with "edit" then "edit edit" after the file name.

Thanks everyone for the info :)
 
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