>Please check your preference settings.  GC 4.4.4 PPC is creating
>custom icons as expected, for me.

I have it set to create custom icons... but somehow use huge icons 
was selected (it didn't do this not so long ago).

>  >  Problem is, the memory size of the image then doubles!
>
>If the original was very small, yes - the total file size will double
>and then some.  That's because of the size of the custom icons.
>
>>
>>Also, if I trim half of an image off using "trim selsction", the
>>image size should decrease... but it increases substantially. Nuts.
>>So how do I trim an image and DECREASE the memory size??
>
>It sounds like you aren't recompressing the image when you save it?
>Or you're saving a JPEG image in an uncompressed format such as TIFF?

How do I recompress it? I am saving as JPEG, not TIFF.
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