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To: Junkyardawg who wrote (105)	9/1/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: Nazbuster	Respond to of 110652

Lamar, Scanner images are raw pixels, often stored in TIFF format. I'm not too familiar with the details of all the formats, but I understand that JPG does a pretty good compression job. You might lose some sharpness via compression, but if size is important, try converting into several of the popular formats to see which is smallest. Also, you can reduce size by reducing the color depth. Instead of 16M colors, try 65k or 256. This shrinks the number of bits required to depict color. I bought LView Pro for image manipulation and it is available as shareware. It will convert the formats for you and permit color depth changes.