Maximum Picture Widths in Forums

[wilked aka Khun Deng]

Lee, I'm using Photoshop 5.0 and I have Windowes XP, I can follow the instructions all the way to compression, which I can only view when I try to save. Even after I put it on low it doesn't shrink the file size (nor do I get the side by side comparison).

The only workaround I've been able to come up with is, using XP, right click on a picture, select send email, open the attachment, copy it back to my photo folder. It works but I'm sure it's not the optimum solution.

[Yannis]

Change resolution is the trick.

You can have a picture as big as you want but the resolution for the Internet must be 72 pixels at inch. A higher resolution is good only for printing. Our screens dont use it.

With 72 pixels at inch the maximum size of the file is no more than 200kb.

[wilked aka Khun Deng]

Yannis, The default is already 72, then I resize to 640 width and it's still around 900kb, then I decrease the resolution to around 32 pixels per inch and it meets the size limit but it also shrinks the picture automatically to around 250 pixels wide.