Sample Compression Levels

Image scanned at different compresion levels
Dimensions of this image: 600 pixels wide, 479 pixels high.
Original image: TIFF format, spatial resolution 3000 pixels wide, 2394 pixels high, scanned at 400 ppi, 8-bit Gray Scale.
File size of resized original TIFF resized to 600 pixels wide, 479 pixels high: 284 KB.

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Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 8.
File size: 39.2 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 13.8%).

Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 7.
File size: 30.4 (percentage of resized TIFF file: 10.70%).

Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 6.
File size: 34.0 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 11.97%).

Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 5.
File size: 28.2 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 9.93%).

Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 4.
File size: 24.4 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 8.59%).

Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 3.
File size: 21.5 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 7.57%).

Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 2.
File size: 17.0 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 5.99%).

Compression: JPEG, Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 1.
File size: 14.1 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 4.96%).

Compression: JPEG, Abobe Photoshop 6.0 Quality level 0.
File size: 13 KB (percentage of resized TIFF file: 4.58%).