Compression Factor when save as JPG

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What compression factor number do you use when saving as a jpg for other forum members?

Perhaps my 140kb size is putting some people off? :thinking:
 
I pretty much save at 10 (whatever that 10 relates to) for photos to post online etc, 12 if I am saving a full size jpeg for any reason, 8 (ish) for web graphics.
 
Use none wherever possible and as little as possible to get the image to fit your size requirements since any compression degrades the image.
 
What software do you use?
It tends to be a bit different in different software, even though it does the same thing.
For example, 100% in the GIMP is with as little compression as possible. So I use 90% for medium sized images and 80-85% for thumbs.

Photoshop is 1-12 (god knows why) so guessing my 10 is about erm.......76% (but then maths aint my strong point!)
 
160kb 800 x 800 pixels
 
8 for web (like stuff i post here), and 12 for getting printed. Never anything else:)
 
i think 100-200Kb is a good file size for a forum, and i would use what ever compression ratio that gave me the target size. looking at some of your posts you seem to use 150-350Kb, but they seem to download fast enough for me but i would not go much larger.

as with the others - anything we print we use 12 if someone buys a digital image for email we compress it to 1-1.5Mb, i think that tends to be an 8 to 10, depending on the original image. To be honest I'm hard pushed to see the difference between a 5Mb jpg file and one that is compressed to 1.5Mb on our 22" monitors.
 
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