I've never used Riptide so I can't say, but from what I've read it can't open PDF or raw postscript files, which photoshop can. Although it does open a host of file formats that PS doesn't, many of which I've never heard of. And I'm pretty sure ysvry is correct. In fact under the save for web you can select your target file size, and set the maximum and minimum quality settings and set the image size by pixels or percentage. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 256-level (8-bit) scale. Batch processing in Photoshop has been available for some time, you can check out this link, it has a tutorial on using Photoshop Actions: http://www.creativemac.com/2002/04_apr/tutorials/psbatch.htm

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