Joseph -- Hang on to your hat on this one. I paid $19.00 to get priority support, and while I was waiting, I opened a .jpg, made a small adjustment and hit "save as." That brought up the dialog box that offers the "options" choice, and I chose nothing -- just hit the "save" choice, and lo-and-behold -- the jpg was NOT compressed to a factor of 20!
So the tech came on the phone, and assured me that's the way Paintshop Pro has ALWAYS worked. So (a) I solved my own issue (b) learned that PSP techs don't know from squat and (c) it cost me $19. I guess I could complain, but I'll just chalk it up to the cost of fixing stupid.
BTW -- I still have PSP X5 installed and confirmed that there was a way to set the default save function -- contrary to what the "expert" said. Go figure.
So again -- just make adjustments, hat "save as", then choose "save" and you images don't get smaller and smaller!
So the tech came on the phone, and assured me that's the way Paintshop Pro has ALWAYS worked. So (a) I solved my own issue (b) learned that PSP techs don't know from squat and (c) it cost me $19. I guess I could complain, but I'll just chalk it up to the cost of fixing stupid.
BTW -- I still have PSP X5 installed and confirmed that there was a way to set the default save function -- contrary to what the "expert" said. Go figure.
So again -- just make adjustments, hat "save as", then choose "save" and you images don't get smaller and smaller!