::hides Mr. Anderson:: Well....very good point AgentSmith...about the "people still saving at 100%". That is probably very true. I work at about 80% because here I am doing "art" and of course want it to look as good as possible (within reason). I use a lot heavier compression on web page images for clients for the obvious speed of download reasons. Probably closer to 50-70. If I have an image that can't hold at 70, I know I need to rework it or rethink the use of that image if it is a large one. I use Photoshop's "Save for Web" option now that I have upgraded to CS, but I find it quite slow (program wise) when saving them out. I am still deciding between this and my old standby...ProJpeg from BoxTopSoftware. ProJpeg lets you decide if you would like to put a bit of smoothing on to help with dithering and it also lets you assign a photoshop mask to allow you to dither the background heavily while NOT dithering the focus or subject of the image which I find very useful. Its a Photoshop plugin so its very convenient. I'm not sure if it plugs into anything else. That may not work for the artwork here but it quite often helps me maintain filesize when doing site images. They also do a SuperGif thing (I think that's the name of it), but I don't see too many gifs around here since everything seems to be photo-quality which would not be suitable for gifs...although MAYBE some of the fractals? Lastly...what about the option of having 7 a week instead of 1 a day? Has there been any discussion on that topic that you know of? I suppose that might defeat the purpose of slowing down the galleries though on a dialy basis. Has there ever been (before the new rule) a case of any one person "overloading" the galleries by posting like 30 pictures or more at once? I still think privately hosted galleries are a good way to go if you want to display exactly the way YOU want. Hosting is getting VERY cheap these days. For 5 bucks a month you could do whatever you wanted size wise, but still display here for exposure. I even like to see some people do "detail" callouts where they show a larger view of some intricate detail and the work that went into it. I often find an artist I like and then go view their whole gallery here and then go so far as to go visit their private site to see more or different images than they might have posted here. (Hey..sometimes the really good ones give ya freebies as a door prize for visiting!) A case in point would be Giana's work. I spent 2 hours crawling through her private site the other night after only seeing one of her freestuff contributions. She only has like 1 image posted here but it was so good I HAD to see more. There she's got them organized by months and years, which is a bit better than just in order of upload like here. If you don't know how to build your own site, people like me develop systems which walk you right through it with no need for additional software, so technical skill shouldn't be a problem with too many people there. If you can handle poser and have a browser, you've got enough skill to build a basic site. You can also implement higher security for your images if you have the knowhow. Anyway...back to renderland for the night... Cheers all! PS...'more links as promised.. http://www.winsoftmagic.com/ajc_features.html http://www.boxtopsoft.com/projpeg.html

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