Quote - I use Photoshop, I'll try and get a Photoshop tutorial together tomorrow sometime, if you like.

I understand the need for the new rules, but I hope this isn't the first of many changes to come.  You know what they say about giving up freedoms.  Once you give up one, the next one is much easier to loose.

Anyway, I like artful Thumbnails, so like I said, I don't mind.

Thank you, that would be wonderful :)

Would you mind covering the following?

Sometimes a gallery image ends up too big in file size and needs to be compressed too much which results in loss of image quality.  So what I do instead of just reszing the image, I select the whole image, contract by X number of pixels (often 5 pixels on all sides, to start). Then I "crop to selection". This reduces the dimensions of the image without affecting the quality of the picture itself.  So if you could cover that for Photoshop that would be terrific.

How to resize using "Bicubuc Resampling" to maintain maximum image quality.

And also the "Save to Web" feature to obtain the a file size within the guideline limits.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi