Dale

That's the nature of saving JPG images in any program. JPG files are
compressed and every time you edit and save them you lose a little more
quality. There are some more advanced applications that will let you
control the amount of compression or turn it off completely when saving.

For really important pictures, I convert them to TIFs on first use and work
from the TIF until I actually need a JPG for emailing or some other use
where file size really matters.

For all my scanned family photos I save them as TIFs when first scanned.

HTH,

Dale


"DH" <DH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B24264C1-EDCB-440C-91A8-1F606EBD0B1A@microsoft.com...
>I have just started using Photo Gallery. I notice that files are much
>smaller
> after I edit them in Photo Gallery. Is there a way to set Photo Gallery
> editing to maintain the original file size and quality. I'm concernd that
> the
> edited file is of much lower quality than the original. I realize that the
> originals are saved in case I want to revert to them. I would like to
> maintain the better quality in the edited picture.