Hi Vadim:
Ummm... Perhaps you should have read the instructions :-)
You took a small JPEG and resized it to 1024 x 768 at 300 dpi for
"Printing". Yeah, it will get a bit bigger. As a professional
photographer, YOU should know that...
OK, maybe Microsoft should use the word "adjustment" instead of
"compression", but it was trying to produce a tool for absolute newbies who
have no idea about this stuff.
The tool gives you the options of "Best, Good, Fair, and Low" quality and
size. If your original starts off below the quality standard you choose,
the tool will up-sample it.
But I would have thought a professional photographer on a Mac could probably
afford a copy of PhotoShop to do this kind of stuff in :-)
That said, I must admit to keeping a copy of Microsoft Photo Editor handy.
This little freeware tool from Office 2000 is just sooo convenient for
quickly cropping and resizing bitmaps :-)
Office Picture Manager is its "replacement". Personally, I think it's
toxic. It's so determined to "help" that it gets in the way. If I have to
do anything more than cropping/resizing/colour balancing, I fire up
PhotoPaint.
Cheers
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