Reduce 30mb file down to about 2mb?

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Hey Guys...

I need some help as soon as you can help me figure this out. My company used to put out a monthly "sales flier". It has been 6 or 7 months since that has actually happened. Previously, the fliers were done up in Publisher by the boss and to be quite honest the end result was very blah looking. I was asked to get this project going again and decided to ditch Publisher for Photoshop.

I created a 2 files (Page 1 and Page 2). Each file is 8-1/2" x 11" with a resolution of 300px. Each file contains 6 large images reduced in size via smart object along with text. As you can imagine this produced a file size of nearly 30mb each. This is too big for us to email out to our customer base which consists of about 100 customers.

What are my options to get these files down to 2mb or below but still keep the integrity of the work? I've tried reducing the resolution, saving as pdf with jpg compression down to low, converting to greyscale (this is something I don't really want to do as the look and feel of the flier is centered all around the colors).

I suppose I could also use some sort of zip/rar program to reduce a bit smaller.

Am I dreaming to big? Or is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

[Raven12388]

With out seeing the flyer i cant really help, you seem to know how to lower the size of the file

the only thing i will say is at 300 dpi your print size is alot larger than your on screen size if you redone the flyer at a lower dpi you can keep most of the quality but reduse the file size greatly 300 dpi is only really important when ya want to create large posters and stuff. im not really good at explaining this stuff i hope this makes sence.

[recacer]

raven, thanks for the reply.

looks like i might have to redo this one. i cant seem to figure this out myself. i probably should have stuck with publisher for this project.

thanks again.

[Raven12388]

i can take a look at it for ya if ya want just send me the psd and i will see what i can do

[instinct46]

You could uploaded to a site, and email the link to customers.

[Raven12388]

Thats not a bad idea that instict45

Hey we are nabours i know st helens really well

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hey guys... i wanted to say thanks for the all of the suggestions. the info i lead off this post with was a bit incorrect.

i have 2 files for the flier, page 1 and page 2. each file is roughly 55mb in size. i played around a bit this morning with trying to get the file exported pdf file size down to a reasonable level and still some integrity to the overall look.

i ended up printing to pdf and saving the file that way. the end result of the file size for both was 1.5mb. the viewable pdf as well as the printed pdf was suitable for my boss, although i would have rather had no compression with high quality output.

thanks again.