If you have paintshop pro, try to fiddle around in the jpg options. There's some option, I dont remember the name and can't check it at this computer. but it allows u to change the sampling or the jpg or whatever. It's a dropdown list with settings with numbers like 4x1 1x1 1x1, 4x2 2x2 2x2 etc. change them around to see what it does to the file size.

I dont know exactly how they work. but the one that starts with 1x1 seems to do particularly good at keeping color detail accurate, which is handy on images which benefit from pure pixel precision (helpfull with web designs and such).

The rest I dont know exactly. All I know is that there's often quite a few kb's of difference between the best and the worst results and which setting is best usually varies for every picture. Finding the best visual quality/compression compromise is a trial and error effort for each picture you compress.

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