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True Phil, it's a great little application, and it's one I used to use regualrly when working with jpegs. But as I was pointing out, now many of my images are processed in Tiff (16 bit) at 36 mg and using the MS resize even at the smallest setting wont reduce it in size enough. The bmp Orion I used only reduced to 3.1 meg even at the 640x480 setting, and I still had to convert it to a jpeg and it still came in at 90 kb.
The biggest plus I find with this technique is I can do all my processing in PS and when I'm finished a couple of clicks and the resize is done into the folder I want it to go to and ready to upload. Otherwise I have to convert my Tiff from 16 bit to 8 bit, then save as a jpeg, then get to the jpeg in windows explorer, resize it then move it to my upload folder. If I'm working aready in Jpeg it's not such an issue, but in larger files if I'm already in PS I find this a much quicker and involve less steps.
Certainly if the main object if for someone to resize an existing jpeg it is a great little application. But for working with 16bit large files (or even 8 bit) I find the funtionality afforded by Save for Web, especially the ability to match quality with size of file, a great image management tool for uploading high quality astroimages
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