Quote - I use photoshop "save for web" at at 85-87 to convert my .psd file to .jpg

is this better than tha default saver with the 1-12 quality option?

also is there any other plug in saver for .jpg that works better?

 

I read somewhere on the web that 'save for web' gives better results than the standard PS 'save as jpg' because it uses a completely different (and more sophisticated) compression process. I don't know how true it is, and I don't think I've ever been able to see a difference, but I use 'save for web' anyway.

I find Irfanview (the free image viewer) seems to have pretty amazing jpg compression, it'll open a PSD file and save it as a JPG (at, say, 95% quality) smaller than photoshop save for web (at 85% quality) can do but with no visible compression artifacts.