heya; i use lzw compressed tif's for my stuff. but for web transfer, i make jpgs. like i said, it's compressed and cross-platform. (mac tifs and pc tifs have differing headers or something.) so that's why you see texture jpgs everywhere. but as for reworking and resaving the jpg, yes, that is death. :) remember kiddies, every time you resave your jpg, you pile another round of loss on it! (actually, that is also why i use gifs, especially for 256 shades of greyscale for the bump/transparency maps. not to mention, the two-colour templates.)