whoe! Hold on there Nellie! No contest here. We are both right and we both win! The points I made are technical and logical. However someone made the point of compresion with JPEG formats and that I believe to be the difference here. With JPEG compression the smaller difference in the difference of color will make the images smaller and sharper to a point. The fact is that it is the software that makes these changes. I could go into how compression works but I think I have bored y'all with enough techno stuff for now. nplus, keep proposing these things, it keeps me thinking and that is the key to staying happy and healthy, excersizing the mind! Magick Michael