@AbbydonKrafts said:@mewtwo064 said:Ok. I saved it as 100% quality. What happened was, the picture was originally about 1280x800 (minus the task bar), but photobucket resized the image and really compressed the crap out of it. Sorry guys. I'll follow the above from now on, namely cropping it.Good. If the final image doesn't convey what the cropped image came from, a textual description will usually suffice.Also, PNG is the format of choice, especially after cropping. With proper optimization, the file size can be small without loss of clarity. The problem with 100% quality JPG is it doesn't save much from BMP in a lot of cases. JPG uses lossy compression, so if you have a screenshot with thousands of colors, 100% quality will greatly increase the file size. For your cropped image, though, you're safe because there is a lot of whitespace (which compresses well). Finally: I believe you can tell Photobucket to not resize an image on upload. That will prevent resizing and the resulting save by Photobucket in a super-compressed format. I use Imageshack and know that it has the option to preserve dimensions (among other options).  Ahh nice. Thanks for the tips :)