1. Go to where you store your photos.  I keep mine in "My Pictures" and "My Documents" 

  2. Select a picture you want to reduce and right click on it.  A menu will pop up.

  3. Select (left click) "open with.....  >" and a smaller menu will pop up.

  4. Select (left click) "Paint" and a new window will open up that includes the photo that you selected

  5. In the upper left corner of the new window, select "Image".  A small menu will pop up.

  6.  Select "Sketch/skew" and a smaller window will open.

  7.  On the sketch/skew window, you will see a horizontal and vertical under sketch.  Reduce the percentages down from 100% on both the horizontal and the verticle.  Reduce them equally or the photo will be obscured.

   (Note... My 3.2 pix. camers is set to take photos that make an almost 700kb file.  For that size file, I usually reduce them to 25 or 30%.  The file size of the pic. will vary from camera to camera and the camera settings.)

  8.  Once you have reduced the H&V percentages, click "O.K." or hit "Enter" on your keyboard.  A window will then show your pic. in reduced form.

  9.  In the window with your reduced pic., choose "File" in the upper left corner.  A new menu will open up.

  10.  In the new menu, select "save as..." and a new window will open up.

  11.  Now, in the "Save AS" window, you have to do three things...

         a. Where it says "Save in", choose a place where you want to save the photo.

         b. Where it says "File name", you have to give your reduced photo a name.  I usually just use the name of the unreduced file name (which will be there in the box) and just add, "ed 25" (which means edited to 25%)  You can name the photo anything you want but not the exact name of the unreduced file name or the exact same name as any other file in your computer.

         c.  Where it says "save as type", SAVE IT AS A JPEG!

  12.  When your done with a. b. & c., select save and your done!