if the file isn't altered, you can save as many times as you want in Photoshop and nothing will change. as soon as you alter the file, Photoshop recompresses it and throws away more information. my best friend wrote the reference implementation for the JPEG standards committee working under the main people who designed JPEG.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Reducing File Size with Photoshop > I suppose if someone was interested in proving/disproving this, all some one > would have to do is keep opening/resaving and review the image after every > time - doing this both with and without making any changes to the image. I > haven't done that.