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I am accustom to seeing my pictures projected on my screen. That sets my initial expectation for what my pictures should look like. Well in reality I can’t show them to you here the same way they look on my screen. So given the limits and choices I have to work with in this medium, I have to select images that will look the closest here to the way I intended them to look. So I get a bunch scanned and put them in the editor to see how close I can get them to the way they’re supposed to look. Many fall out here because I just can’t get them to a point I’m satisfied with. Next I go ahead and make the JPG file and see how the image survives compression. I don’t want the files to be more than 100k bytes on average so they will load in an Ahm.. acceptable amount of time. So I go back and forth with the compression parameters to see if I can get something reasonable. Sometimes I compromise on a non-subject area of a scene as long as the subject is good. Given all this, as I talked about in the sections on Monitors, Files, and Number of Colors, there is still a lot of doubt if you will see what I see. Initially, when I was doing pictures for my web site, I set up for 800 X 600 at 64K colors. In 2001 I started using the settings of 1024 X 768 at millions of colors while I do web site work.

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