[thelist] jpg file size

Aaron,

Naturally, it depends on your target audience, their modem speeds, and the 
overall weight of the pages. That said, 20k sounds good to me. Even if your 
audience is on 28.8, and the total page doesn't come to more than 40k, 
you're still in a decent target range.

Marlene

At 02:35 PM 1/19/00 -0500, Czechowski, Aaron wrote:
>What would ya'll say is an okay size for a photo-quality jpg file?  20KB?
>
>i have a bunch of high quality images in TIF format, which I've converted to
>JPEGs in Photoshop, saving at Quality 8 and using Baseline ("Standard") as
>the format.  I know cranking the image quality down will lower the size, but
>these are really nice photos that I want to keep a good res.  But if 20KB or
>so isn't too bad for a good quality jpg (I'll only have one max per page,
>along with some general GIF graphics), then I shouldn't have to worry about
>it.
>
>So basically, I'm not asking how to further optimize the images, I can dig
>that out of list archives or elsewhere.  I'm just after feedback on
>acceptable image size.