----- Original Message ----- From: "James B. Davis" : My point is, that 75K in this day of cheap big hard drives just seems a bit : small. I don't like to send up an image of 600 by 400 nor do I like compressing : below a level of 5. that was my poin too- if there's metadata in the image which can be stripped then the actual image may not need so much compression. I had one guy send me his web page to look at, some 30 images. Once the 2+Mb of superfluous data had been pointed out and stripped from his images he was deligted to find he could make the images bigger AND load faster :) k