I've noticed that everytime that I save a jpeg for a skin in LFS and then open it it LFS and then re-open it in PSP after using it in LFS, the colors are faded around the edges, is this normal and if so is there a way to avoid it from happening??

Thanks and Merry Christmas.

I believe PSP has an options button on the Save As dialog box, which is clickable with certain file types. When you select jpg, click the options button and save at the highest quality setting that PSP allows.

I always save my skins at the highest quality, despite people advising using a slightly lower setting. My comp can handle it

JPG is a lossy format so everytime you save it you lose some detail, this is bad when opening and closing the same file. What you should do is save it in a lossless format like TIF or as a layered psp file so that you dont lose any details. Then just save it as a jpg when you want to use it in LFS. If you work in a lossless format and only save to jpg when needed you can use far less compression and get great results so you don't have to go pissing off people with your huge skin files to download. Also there's a limit to how large your skin files can be on lfsworld.

To get psp to save at a "top" level I use the Export as jpg tool, and have compression set to 1.

What they said about saving in lossless format.

When working on a skin, I always just save the PSP file as a PSP file. When you want to preview it in LFS or the viewer, you can export it (File menu > Export) as a jpeg file, rather than saving. This will export a separate copy and keep the PSP file still loaded in PSP.

Never save as a jpeg, then reload it to work on it some more. Always keep the original version as a PSP file so you still have the layers to work with.

Thanks for all of the advice folks I'll be sure to put it to good use..