Saving your layout process

[SweetChar]

Would any of you mind sharing with me your steps in saving the gallery sized layout? The method I have “always” used is suddenly saving my files too large.

I usually save my full-size 3600 tif version then save a full-size 3600 jpeg version. Then I shrink that down to 2400 (habit from my days of home printing the layouts at 8”x8”) then use the “save for Web & Devices” option where I change the image size to 700 and play with the “quality” number until I get something close to & below 499K. But, the last 2 layouts I saved show up on my computer as 831 KB and 7.7 MB. Even though the number was good while saving. 😳 I don’t know if I accidentally changed a setting in the Save for Web & Device area.

What method are you using? Thanks for any info.