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# just as a side note.....
How do you keep your quality but make the file size so small? Im on PShop and save as a small 40kb ish file and it always looks shite.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 11:23, archived)
# I use photoshops save for the web feature
www.elated.com/articles/the-save-for-web-feature/

PShop (are you talking about Paintshop Pro?)
Export - Jepg Optimizer
which has several settings you can change to make it Web friendly. (Web safe Palette)
and compression to make the image smaller
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 11:28, archived)
# Ta
I will try this........
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 11:31, archived)
# No
photoshop CS4
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 11:34, archived)
# then save for web is your friend

File/Save for Web / usually jpeg medium

and it should tell you the file size at the bottom left :)

/not got cs4 yet, but it should be the same as 3
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 11:41, archived)
# I don't know the technicalities, but it seems to me that...
The two commonest ways to compress an image are:
  - downsample: ie. reduce number of pixels;
  - more lossy: ie. reduce JPEG quality.

I'm amazed at how good JPEG compression is, even at its worst setting. If you reduce the pixel count and use a moderate JPEG compression it will look rough, whereas keeping a high pixel count and using extreme JPEG compression seems to do a better job.

I just use "Resize Image" and the "Quality" slider when saving as a .jpg. You can tell I don't have Photoshop...
(I helped save b3ta! Bee Nice |-|, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 11:42, archived)