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.
 
Slapo said:
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.
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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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