Re: Just Curious..Or maybe Just a Silly Question

Hi Sharon

If I understand the query... you're asking why you can keep the same
dimensions of a graphic file (xx pixels by yy pixels) but when saved at
different times it's physical size (in bytes) changes. If this is not what
you're asking, read no further I've misunderstood...

If it is what you're asking, I presume it is because you are saving the
images as jpgs, and the compression / image quality ratio of a jpg file can
be changed. It depends on the s/w you are using... if it doesn't ask about
jpg quality, it might just use it's own default all the time, it might make
a best guess.

Fireworks 3 has a very nifty export to jpg option that lets you play with
the setting to reach an acceptable compromise between file size and image
quality, with on screen previews.

Hope this helps...

Tim.
          http://www.ringsoft-designs.co.uk


>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have a question which may seem pretty simple to a lot of people but
>anyway here goes:
>
>I made some small thumbnails of pictures of animals at the zoo and put them
>in a table. This went fine, then I linked them to the larger photos and
>found that they took way too long to load. So back I went to another
>thumbnail program and thought I would just reduce them to a smaller pic.
>but larger than the thumbnails on the first page.
>
>Am I making sense yet??? Any way after fiddling about for a while I
>realised I could keep them the same size as the original and just make it a
>thumb nail and it significantly reduced the size of the file. For instance
>one went from 273kb to 133kb whilst maintaining the same size picture. To
>my eye the quality looks exactly the same.
>
>Can anyone tell me why the file size reduced when to me it seems I have
>kept it the same size and quality??? Perhaps the quality has been lost
>some..but to me it does not appear to have...
>
>
>Sharon
>

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