On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:51:22 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote:

Pictures ...

And for web use they needn't slow things down, I use a nominal
320x240 image size for photographs on my website compressed so that
each is just over 20k.

Tell me more.

Sorry Mary missed this for some reason. See other followups for a
possibly simpler program to use. I use Paint Shop Pro, it has a great
many image adjustment/retouching tools. What I like about it is with
compressed images it calculates the resultant filesize and tells you
along with a view of the compressed image, so you can balance filesize
and quality "on the fly" without having to commit and see if the
results are suitable.

A number of other programs just have a "quality" percentage whatvere
that means and don't give previews or filesize so you are working
blind. You could stick with a known percentage but then the filesize
will vary depending on the detail in the image, I use *very* varying
amounts of compression to get the 20k filesize with very little impact
on the preceived image.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail