Maybe I'm not the most knowledgeable guy here, but I really don't see what you're getting at. The per-pixel diffs look nearly the same. I downloaded the "hipnsh

Maybe I'm not the most knowledgeable guy here, but I really don't see what you're getting at. The per-pixel diffs look nearly the same. I downloaded the "hipnshoot.zip" and yes the photos look identical. But then I fired up gimp and re-compressed the high quality photo to reduce the size even more than the "jpegmini" version, and I can't tell the difference. Here are the file sizes: -rw-r--r-- 1 tim users 4930482 Dec 1 21:22 hipnshoot.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 tim users 1310430 Feb 26 08:27 hipnshoot_gimp.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 tim users 1352882 Dec 3 09:16 hipnshoot_mini.jpg I put them here: http://www.rareventure.com/jpegmini/ http://www.rareventure.com/jpegmini/ "hipnshoot_mini.jpg" is the "jpegmini" version and "hipnshoot_gimp.jpg" is the one I compressed with plain old gimp.