Everyone has great ideas and they all work. I have learned by trial and error to do a couple of things in order first.
I always reduce the number of colors by trial and effort until I still retain a quality picture, I then pick a compression value which also keeps the quality satisfactory, and if you have Macromedia Flash you can import the file into a single frame of flash convert to a Shockwave flash file while keeping the compression at high quality within flash and publishing the shockwave flash file to be viewed in your browser. If you like the quality at this point you may want to do a screen capture of the image displayed on the computer using print screen and then you can paste that file as a new image within any graphics editing program, and then use the selection tool to capture only the image itself from the original screen capture and discard all of the surrounding graphic, then paste as a new image. If you find after saving this image that the image is acceptable to you, you then have the choice of saving to the web, and / or reducing the size of the image while maintaining the correct ratio and proportions. Any combination of the above can be helpful to some extent, or you can do them all. Sometimes I have even repeated the process and received an even smaller file that was acceptable for the purpose I was using it for. Sometimes if you are only looking to create a small image with good quality you can create certain large sized large thumbnails of the original within Dreamweaver and Fireworks using Dreamweaver to command Fireworks to create them for you and a variety of other graphics programs can do the same. I had a good day today compared to most others and could remember some of what I have usually forgotten. I hope this helps. Good luck! James
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How do I adjust a 2.69 mb JPEG photo to be 50 kb or less so it can be used
on a website?