Quote - please help, i,m trying to get an image down to 15k without in looking all choppy and small to view on renerosity i did it before and cant for the life of me figure out how i did it. i whent to Save for Web and a new window shows up and after that im stuck

 

Save for web does open a new window. You then have options to resize the image pixel dimensions and also you can use the quality slider to get your file size to a precise amount.
Use the 2 up view to see the before and after effect of your changes before saving the image.