Re: Save for web, JPEG details

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:45:01 +0100, Derek Fountain
<nomail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> reverently intoned upon the aether:

> I thought I once read somewhere that the Save for Web dialog box has a
> system whereby you can tell it which part of the image you want the most
> detail to remain in when saving to a lossy format like JPEG. Something
> like, make a selection of the most important part of the image, use the
> SfW dialog, and it will ensure the selected part gets the best quality
> (i.e. that part of the image will be least lossy). This doesn't seem to
> work in practice, so is there another way of doing it? Or did I imagine
> the whole thing? I can't find anything written down anywhere...

While PS can do it with Save For Web as noted, I have found that on
average I get a smaller file size saving the whole image at higher
quality. Of course YMMV. I do like the idea of using slices.
Albeit, that only works for HTML format documents (web pages, emails,
....).

enjoy,

Sean




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