Hi Rubber
I sell mainly postcards and like to show them as large as possible so that my bidders can see exactly what they are bidding on in regard to the subject and the card's condition.
To obtain this size image from a postcard of 5.5 inches by 3 inches I scan in at c.200dpi.
This gives me an image of around 1093 x 719 and 350kb approx.
Using auctivas uploader which optimises [and compresses?] this image to 1024 often increases the file size!
If I scan at 200dpi and then save at 72dpi to get an image file of around 150kb and then use auctivas uploader the file size still increase a tadge.
I have also noticed that the auctiva uploader appears to have increased it's compression rate as my images all now have that low res sort of blurring which is not what you would expect with a higher file size!
It'a mystery as to what is the recommended way of getting your images to display at their best on Auctiva!
Even images that I self host into auctiva do not display as well as they do on my hosting site!