Ron Clarke wrote: > ... resize the original first. This will give you a smaller version > of the original, but with the same quality resolution.
I may very well be dense Ron; but as far as I understand, resizing in PictView, or any other graphics program I'm familiar with, alters the resolution by definition. But if I'm missing something, I'd sure like to know it. > I have sometimes found that even this can give a poor result, and > I have used an alternative method to reduce file size without losing > quality - convert the graphic to a GIF, using PictView or Compushow > 2000. > This will reduce the colours from 16 million to 256, and greatly reduce > file size. With a good dithering converter, it is hard to spot any loss > of detail. I was informed that GIFS are interlaced, whatever that means; so it may be worth a try for that reason too. > Have you tried CompuShow 2000 ? Yes many years ago, both cshow and 2show. And I was pretty convinced at the time, that it was the source of innumerable hard disk problems; caused by the programs because I didn't pay for them. It swore me off keeping current shareware on my hard drive. Thanks again for your attempts to help me, I appreciate it. John V
