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Steve Yee (yeeware@gwis.com) wrote:
: I have a scanned photo that's 3.7M. I want to use it in Photoshop on my 
: Amiga emulted MAC (I use Shapeshifter).
: 
: The original is around 3x5. The final size I want in Photoshop is 1.5x2.5.
: 
: I'm using IMFX 1.52.
: 
: I cropped the photo,then halfed it,then saved as jpeg (90% compression).
: Is this the correct way?

Yes. A "quality factor" of 90 is a bit excessive for scanned photographs,
though. Somewhere around 75 should be sufficient, unless, of course, the
difference in apparent quality is annoying.

Repeated JPEG compression/decompression will almost always lose you
information (it certainly will in your case). So JPEG is best used for
storing completed work, with lossless methods such as PNG or IFF24 being
used for intermediate storage.

-- Mat.