🚀 go-pugleaf

Previously on adobe.photoshop.elements, sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com
said:

>   With the cost of storage today there seems to be little need to
> reduce resolution.  I understand there still are some special needs to
> do so, but it would seem that very few need to reduce the size of an
> image. 

I'm guessing that you are not involved in camera club digital photo
contests.

The rules stipulated by the Photographic Society of America, and used
by all of their member clubs, organizations and individuals, are that
images submitted for a digital competition MUST be sized no larger than
1024 by 768, and SHOULD be no larger than 350 kilobytes.  Any image
exceeding the resolution limit will be automatically disqualified.  And
since they are to be projected via computer, the best way to ensure
that the byte size is within the soft limit is to reduce the DPI to 96
or 72.

Personally, I think it's time for them to update the maximum size
limitations to at least 1200 by 1024 and the byte size to at least
500k.  Today's computers and software can either display that natively,
or resize down the image display with no loss of quality.

-- 
Jeffrey Kaplan                                         www.gordol.org
Double ROT13 encoded for your protection

Notes on Fortress Construction:  14. All deathtraps will have only one
way in or out. Any way out should lead to an even more cunning and
fast-working deathtrap.