Huge file sizes - jpeg

[Jade]

Hi there

I'm a Photoshop user who's crossed over. I resize images for web and on Photoshop would resize images to the physical dimensions I needed (1300px long edge, 72 dpi, 'save for web'...)

I resize images in the same fashion with Affinity, only instead of saving to web I save at medium quality jpeg (45%)

Nonetheless, the files i used to save on Photoshop at about 350-400K now come out at around 800K.

Am I missing something? This is a terribly large size for web use, but I don't want to reduce the quality to less than 45% as this will impact the reader experience.

Thanks

Jade

 

 

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[firstdefence]

What was the jpegs original dimensions?

[Jowday]

13 hours ago, Jade said:

I'm a Photoshop user who's crossed over. I resize images for web and on Photoshop would resize images to the physical dimensions I needed (1300px long edge, 72 dpi, 'save for web'...)

I resize images in the same fashion with Affinity, only instead of saving to web I save at medium quality jpeg (45%)

Nonetheless, the files i used to save on Photoshop at about 350-400K now come out at around 800K.

Am I missing something? This is a terribly large size for web use, but I don't want to reduce the quality to less than 45% as this will impact the reader experience.

The JPG output from Affinity programs is clearly inferior compared to output from fx Adobe - and JPG files from Affinity programs are much, much bigger. For some reason it doesn't seem optimized in any way and never was even in the Serif legacy apps. 

Export to PNG also results in bigger images - but in this case the quality is rather good due to dithering.