Hi David - you led me in the right direction.  Thank you. What I ended up
doing was: 1) Image>resize>640 x 480  2) File>Save As>Options>Jpeg>Quality
set to 72.  The file that was originally 276KB ended up at 35KB and the
resulting picture looked great.  Now, I'll load irfanview on his computer,
teach him the 2 simple steps, perhaps even add it to his right click.  I'm a
happy camper.  Thanks again...and good night.  Dianne

-----Original Message-----
>>>  There are three basic ways to get the size of a digital image down
to 50-60Kb:

1.  Shrink it down from "8x10"  to something more like "wallet size".
I think that's what Photo Express is doing that your husband doesn't
like.

2.  Decrease the resolution, say from 300dpi to 72dpi (a a common
printer resolution).  Can look a lot like 3, below:

3.  Allow .jpg compression to sacrifice fine details.

  I normally use some combination of 1&3 to make small/fast versions
of the mster images which stay at larger resolutions and lossless
(.tif, for instance) compression.

Dave Gillett

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