Here is the homework for Week 2. Having PSP5 on one computer (at home) and Netscape and Internet access on another 25 km away (at work) is proving a bit complicated. I suspect that I could have compressed the .jpg files a bit further and still been OK in Netscape but on my monitor at home these seemed to be the limit and the saving in size was not appreciable.
I found that .jpg standard compression usually gave smaller files than progressive compression which I can not see with PSP3 or Adobe Photoshop 3, the programmes which I have at work. I think all were reduced to 32K (15 bit) colours but it was getting late at night and I forgot to write it down for all of them.
The .gif files are all 87a non-interlaced which saved 25% - 40% in size but .jpg was still the winner in every case.
Despite "the common rule of thumb is to always use .gif for cartoons ..." bearxmas and santi are much smaller in .jpg and looked rotten using the safe palette. Maybe they don't rate as cartoons??
I've shown the smallest .gif and the smallest .jpg versions for comparison.

Second Week
.gif	.jpg
21K (256 colours)	5K (50% standard compression)
13K (256 colours)	5K (40% standard compression)
9K (safe palette)	5K (50% standard compression)
12K (safe palette)	6K (50% standard compression)
31K (256 colours)	6K (40% progressive!!! compression)
18K (256 colours)	3K (40% standard compression) 50% progress was only a tiny bit bigger
42K (256 colours)	9K (50% standard compression)
30K	9K (50% standard compression)
55K (256 colours) My 19K (safe palette) .gif won't open in Netscape for some reason	11K (50% standard compression)
20K (256 colours)	4.5K (50% standard compression) Only a shade smaller than progressive compression
21K 256 colours	9K (50% progressive!!! compression)

Second Week - Second Part

Kim and Rory are my 2 kids (the original picture of Kim was rotten to start with but I didn't have another digital photo of her and she wasn't home when I was doing this).

Kim - Feathering
Kim - Fill
Rory - Lasso Smart Edge, Feathering, Fill
Using Different Feathering, Clone Brush and Different Compression
Selection, Matting, Remove Black Matte
Selection, Defringe

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