On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:28:50 +0000 Philip Wolmuth wrote:

>I've just been trying to send some thumbnail JPEGs to a client and 
>find that I can't get the file sizes below 100K.  A 600 by 400 pixel 
>image compressed at quality 3 comes out at 136K; the same image 
>compressed to quality 3 using PS 5.5 is only 50K.  Anyone have any 
>ideas why?

Use 'save for web' & it strips out the IPTC data & the thumbnails etc,
save 100 k. Or (on a Mac) do a 'get info', select the thumbnail image &
delete it. You get a generic icon and save 50 k or so while keeping the IPTC.

David Hoffman
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