Aye, Bandolin, I understand all of what you're saying. Photoshop CAN do all of those things! But Riptide does it better. Photoshop copmression leave more artifacts, and is not "lossless". And Photoshop still doesn't let you access the 8-bit spectrum for compression, I'm using PS 7 anyway. The "Save for Web" option is slow and useless if you have Riptide.