The format is JPG which should have no bearing in the ultimate file size. I guess what I'm trying to determine is the difference between Sample and Scale. The Image Magick website says that Sample scales an image with pixel sampling. This leads me to believe there should be a reduction in the number of pixels and ultimately the file size. Is this true? I've resampled images in photo editors before (i.e. Image Expert) and successfully reduced a file size from 300k to 40k without compromizing web photo quality. Again, I am not reducing the image size just the file size.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

David K.