On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 01:15 PM, David Tingey wrote:
It was an original post from Matthew Ward. You are right, AOL does its own further compression on images when presenting web pages, but I don't know if that also applies to e-mail attachments, though it wouldn't surprise me.
I can't recall how this thread started but seem to remember that AOL is notorious for doing things to image files, somehow changing them. I think there's an option in their setup that stops this happening and makes images display properly as intended, but perhaps someone else can add to this.
David
But Matthew - going back to your original post - as far as I recall you were sending images of your quotations, which are presumably monochromatic, or at least only a few colours. In that case you would be far better sending them as gifs. Use the "save for web" feature in PS (5.5 onwards I think) and set the number of colours as low as possible while still giving you an acceptable image. The resulting file will be much smaller and cleaner than a jpeg.
-----------------------
Best,
Francis Newman
Webshot Ltd, UK
===============================================================
GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
