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The original posted photo was 2048x1536

I reduced it to under 50,000 bytes at 544x410

Then added some FX & reduced size to 400x300 - 128,178 bytes - animations & even many "still" .gif images are way bigger than .jpeg or .jpg files

I quit using any of my 12 websites for posting images on FR threads & emails

Photobucket & Imagecave do a good job of hosting images with reliability - The catch is there is a monthly bandwidth limit - But it can be worked around by balancing posted files

No more "hotlinking" problems or slow loading of images, audios, webpages on my own websites now - and no more problems when they get a lot of traffic 4-6 times a day

This is ¼th the file size of the original .jpeg photo I made it from

Cartoon characters do not need Hi-Rez photos of Plame/Wilson

The White House photos are not that huge in file sizes - Should we give the DNC better images here on FR?

FR is not a fine arts museum

I use a dinky 56K circa 2000 RCA WebTV Plus with a big vintage Marantz stereo amp & huge speakers and two big TV monitors on DirecTV satellite feed - all at once

MSN/MSFT told me that cannot be done.......

So I attempt to keep my images a reasonable compromise between image quality and fast loading speeds

I know my 56K WebTV Plus loads many .mp3s much faster than many laptops - I also try to use .mp3s that are no larger than 300-800K on my webpages

Audios over 1-2 million bytes are impossible for most 56K rigs to handle within reasonable times

Original .jpeg had 313,746 colors

A tad more than required.....