Photoshop Element 2 Batch Processing

[Wijono]

I am using Photoshop Element 2.0.
In doing the “Batch Processing…”, for the Conversion Options for JPEG we can select either one of the following options:
JPEG Low Quality
JPEG Medium Quality
JPEG High Quality
JPEG Max Quality

For the “JPEG High Quality”, Photoshop Element is using a Quality Scale of 8.
Is there a trick to change it to a Quality Scale of say 9?
Or perhaps there is a way to add another conversion option like “JPEG Very High Quality” using a scale of 9?
Thanks a lot.

[TonyW]

I don't believe you can change it (although I don't have PSE2 installed any more) however I'm not sure there would be anything to be gained by doing so - the settings for low. medium, high and max are 3,5,8,10. It's hard enough to tell the difference between them so I doubt you'd see any difference between 8 and 9.

Tony

[Wendy]

Hi ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

I just opened up PSE3 and I would suggest that you use Max ... there isn't a way of changing it to 9 :)

Wendy

[Wijono]

Thank you all for the information.
The reason that I want to use the batch processing is to convert the resolution of my photos from 1600x1200 into my favorite resolution 1024x768 which has smaller file size.
If I should use JPEG Max Quality, which is using scale of 12 (not 10) in PSE2, then it will end up with a much bigger file size, for example a 1600x1200 picture with a file size of 357 KB, after conversion to 1024x768 will become 441 KB! Whereas if I use JPEG High Quality (scale of 8), it will have a file size of 93 KB.
It looks that I will have to be satisfied with JPEG High Quality for my batch conversion.

[TonyW]

Just curious why you would bother to convert. 1024x768 is only suitable for screen viewing in which case JPEG quality isn't going to make very much difference at all. If you use Save for Web you can see the effect of the different JPEG quality settings. If you ever want to print then you're much better off keeping them at the higher resolution.

Tony

[Wendy]

Tony ...

I was just wondering the same thing :)

Wendy