Trouble saving Affinity Designer files as large as 4 MB?

[Carla Ashcraft]

I am having trouble saving Affinity Designer vector files that are large enough (4 megapixels) to be accepted by Shutterstock. (When I open the file created in AD in Adobe Illustrator and save as an EPS, the file size is vastly larger in Illustrator.) Don't want to use both programs to create, then save.

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

[NotMyFault]

Hi Clara,

welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear about your issues.

While trying to help I'm unsure if i fully understand the issue. Do you mean that the size of an exported EPS file from a Designer afdesign file exceeds 4 MB, so it wont be accepted by Shutterstock?

• Which export file format do you use?
• Which export settings (including those under "more") do you use?
• Does you files contain any elements getting rasterized? This will be shown in the export UI.
• Can you upload an example file where we can try to reproduce the issue?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

Do you mean that the size of an exported EPS file from a Deisgner afdesign file exceeds 4 MB, so it wont be accepted by Shutterstock?

Typically, that question means that the EPS file is too small in byte content, and needs to be at least 4MB but is coming in smaller. (My guess is that Shutterstock is expecting EPS files generated by AI, and wants the AI data stream in them, too, which would make them larger.)

[NotMyFault]

I misread the original post. After consulting 

https://support.submit.shutterstock.com/s/article/What-are-the-technical-requirements-for-images?language=en_US

it becomes clear 4 MPixel is the lower bound.

Is the problem the pixel count, or the file size in MByte?

You may need to simply adjust export settings wrt document size (pixel count) or DPI.

[Old Bruce]

16 hours ago, Carla Ashcraft said:

I am having trouble saving Affinity Designer vector files that are large enough (4 megapixels) to be accepted by Shutterstock. (When I open the file created in AD in Adobe Illustrator and save as an EPS, the file size is vastly larger in Illustrator.) Don't want to use both programs to create, then save.

Any suggestions?

I think you may have misread the physical dimensions, four million pixels, as file size, four million Bytes. So the minimum size is 2,000 pixels by 2,000 pixels, or 1,000 by 4,000 pixels, and what ever that works out to in Bytes.

As a test I just made a 3,000 by 3,000 pixel (9 megapixels) .eps file that comes in at 5,001 Bytes, five Kilobytes, 0.005 Megabytes. I am certain I could make one smaller in Bytes.

[Carla Ashcraft]

Yes Walt--a collage of images I've drawn in Affinity Designer, when exported as an EPS, generated a file size smaller than 1 MB. That same EPS file, when opened in Adobe Illustrator and saved in Illustrator, grew to be more than 4 MB. (I know a guy has posted on this topic a few years ago claiming he's been able to save files in a size acceptable to Shutterstock, but his advice didn't work for me.) Maybe it's just not "doable" without Adobe.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Carla Ashcraft said:

Yes Walt--a collage of images I've drawn in Affinity Designer, when exported as an EPS, generated a file size smaller than 1 MB. That same EPS file, when opened in Adobe Illustrator and saved in Illustrator, grew to be more than 4 MB.

That doesn't matter because ShutterStock does not require the file size to be 4 MB (megabytes) or greater. The requirement is for files to be 4 MP (megapixels) or larger.

From the link @NotMyFault posted:

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Megapixels (MP) are different from megabytes (MB), as they refer to the dimensions and not the file size. To calculate your megapixels, multiply the X (width) by the Y (height) of your image or artwork.

Short version: do not confuse megapixels with megabytes.

[Carla Ashcraft]

Thanks everyone for your input, it is working for me now. I was certain that when I selected all of my artwork it was at least 4 megapixels but must have been mistaken, (and I thought i was getting rejected because the output file size was too small). I created new files from scratch and made sure my selected artwork was more than 2400 px x 2400 px and now it's a go.

 

Thanks again!