Grocery shopping sucks. That's why I buy my groceries online. And get them delivered to my kitchen floor. Boring, I know.

That's it!! Someone, only one of you please, tell me how to get my photos loaded to pbase without this kind of degradation. I know this is a lame photo, but the quality of the file is much better than what you are seeing. First I loaded it from a 40% image reduction and then compressed it from 315kb on pbase. Garbage! So I redid it with a 30% image reduction and sharpened the heck out of it in Nikon Capture, and twice in Paint Shop Pro, once before and once after reduction. Then I loaded it and it was still big, 228kb. So I compressed it and now it's worse than the first time I loaded it. This happens with almost all of my photos since using the D70. Unless I leave the file sizes at 250-300kb I get lots of "artifacting" or whatever it's called.

The current image was saved at a higher compression rate yeilding 169kb file and that looked so-so to begin with. The pbase compression has made it slightly worse. Less so than the compression of the larger file.