Save JPG quality in Photo Gallery

[Maddog]

Using FP 2003. Using Photo Gallery. In previous versions (FP2002), while
saving the page, it prompts for saving files. I would change quality to
around 50% and it would reduce the file size to a reasonable size (1.5mb to
about 100k). Publish and all good. Worked like a charm. Now I have upgrade
to FP2003, when I go to save the page that has a photo gallery on it, it
prompts me the same with a new revised screen. Uncheck the box "Use image as
is", change the percentage to 50, click OK and the file quality/size was not
reduced. Try again and notice that if I follow the steps again and before
clicking OK, go back into to double check the quality percentage, the "Use
image as is" has been selected (checked) again. It is basically ignoring my
request to change the quality.

I don't want to use a imaging program to resize before adding them to
FP....This used to work great and was very convenient...I must be doing
something wrong or have a FP option not set correctly.....Please help.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Resizing, optimizing with a third party program is better than letting FP do
it...much better. Use IrFanview, you can do it in batches and will only take
you a couple of seconds to do all your images in one shot.

FP sucks at image editing.

IrFanview is free.


| Using FP 2003. Using Photo Gallery. In previous versions (FP2002), while
| saving the page, it prompts for saving files. I would change quality to
| around 50% and it would reduce the file size to a reasonable size (1.5mb
to
| about 100k). Publish and all good. Worked like a charm. Now I have
upgrade
| to FP2003, when I go to save the page that has a photo gallery on it, it
| prompts me the same with a new revised screen. Uncheck the box "Use image
as
| is", change the percentage to 50, click OK and the file quality/size was
not
| reduced. Try again and notice that if I follow the steps again and before
| clicking OK, go back into to double check the quality percentage, the "Use
| image as is" has been selected (checked) again. It is basically ignoring
my
| request to change the quality.
|
| I don't want to use a imaging program to resize before adding them to
| FP....This used to work great and was very convenient...I must be doing
| something wrong or have a FP option not set correctly.....Please help.

 

[E. T. Culling]

Rob is right ... don't let FP go near your images ... for any reason!!
Eleanor