Are you embedding the colour profile? Avoiding this will shave off at least 30 Kb.
Just a thought. JOstein ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:47 AM Subject: JPEG Compression Limits > I've been trying to get my PUG entry finished and when getting to the last > step of saving it as a .jpg, the smallest I can compress the file is 102K, > at Photoshop quality level of zero. This is for an image that is 600 * 394 > pixels, resampled at 72 ppi. There is noticieable degradation in the image. > > The smallest I can compress the image at it's physical pixel size, and still > get reasonably good results yields a filesize of 134K at Photoshop quality > level 3. > > Any suggestions or have I simply hit the compression wall? The image is a > silohuetted trees with fairly open branches and therefore, I assume, has > quite a bit of image info compared to shots that may have large contiguous > blocks of color (assuming again I have an inkling of how jpeg compression > works). > > Tom C. > > >
