Short cut for converting pngs with reflection to jpg?

After reading the posts about huge image sizes, I tried the suggestion about turning off effects. But I found I liked the little reflection bit at the bottom of my images. So I left in the effect and published my site to get the swoopty png files with alpha and reflection.
I then loaded the png files up into GraphicConverter, and used that to generate a jpeg. GraphicConverter wanted to know what to do with the alpha channel, so I experimented and found flattening it did what I wanted.
Finally I turned off reflections on my images, added the new much smaller jpg to my pages, resized and repositioned the graphics. And now I have something that looks to me just like what I started with only with smaller page sizes.
So.... The Question ... Does anybody know a simpler way to get this same result? I don't want to do this every time I add a picture to my iWeb built website.

Chris...
You are discovering the many workarounds that iWeb forces us to do in order to maintain control over visibility in IE and file sizes! Here is what I generally do when I want to apply image effects like rotation, drop shadows, frames, reflections....and I DON'T want iWeb to convert my small JPG into a big PNG...
I basically arrange the elements of my page to my liking...say it's a series of 3 images in an arrangement and I apply frames and a reflection to it. If I just publish, iWeb will convert my 3 little jpgs into 3 big(ger) PNGs just because of the effects. Instead, what I do is I take a screenshot of the 3 image group once I am happy with the final arrangement using Apple-shift-4. I run the resulting PNG "Picture 1" through my favorite program "Downsize" in order to convert back to JPG, and the result is a nice small jpg with all the effects that I applied! I then delete the 3 elements in iWeb and drop this one little jpg in and voila! That's it! Sometimes I do this with entire pages and really get fast loading pages that also look good in IE.
If you have found any of this information to be useful to you, please take the time to provide me with feedback by marking my reply as "solved" or "helpful" using those little buttons that you see in the title bar of this reply. I'd really appreciate it!

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