Help - resizing image

[rocalisa]

Can anyone give me some advice on resizing pages to keep them crisp but still under 130K. I thought I was doing it right (using export as .jpg in PSP9) but the filesize is still too small to avoid visible compression effects. Any suggestions would be appreciated - I hate the way I do all that work to make something that looks nice and then it doesn't because of the compression.

Thanks.

[Hom74]

Hmmm...I have PSCS2 so maybe someone w/PSP will stop by to help.

I leave mine at 300 and resize the overall pixel dimension to 500x500. And I usually save at a level 7 (which usually makes it under 100k, even though most gallery limits are higher than this lol). If that doesn't make it small enough, I use the Save For Web feature in PSCS2.

[rocalisa]

I've been resizing to 600x600. I'll try 500x500 and see if the drop is enough to do the trick. Thanks for the suggestion Karen.

[rocalisa]

Yep, that's helped. I'll stick with 500x500 in future and that should solve the problem. I don't even remember where I got the figures of 600x600 now anyway.

Thanks Karen.

[Hom74]

You probably got 600x600 b/c lot that's the maximum in lots of galleries out there. there are also some w/limits of 500x500 so I've just done it that way. Glad it helped

[Sweeet]

Yeh, I use PSP XI and I always keep it either 500 x 500 or under and it works perfectly.

[rocalisa]

Jenna, good to know there's another PSP user here who might be able to help me out as needed. We're probably going to upgrade to XI, but it's all a matter of balancing the finances - as seems to be the case with most of life really.