Minimizing/ Compressing the size of a picture

If you don't have an image editing software (e.g. Photoshop Elements) , Microsoft PowerPoint software provides some alternatives to reduce the size of a picture. Rember: Reducing the size of the picture (ie. to reduce the kilo bytes) will also reduce the quality of the picture. But sending the pictures through internet will be a 'breez'.
Here are the steps to do it:

1. Start a new PowerPoint presentation with a blank slide layout
2. Click Insert-> Picture-> From file
3. Select the picture you want to reduce the size of
4. This will bring the picture to the presentation slide.
5. Right click on the picture placed in the power PowerPoint and select the option 'Format Picture'
6. Select 'Compress' from the 'Picture' tab
7. Click on 'Compress'
8. Select 'Web/Screen'
9. Click 'OK'
10. If you get a dialogue box, warning that the quality of the image will reduce, go ahead and select 'Apply'
11. Click 'OK' in the format picture dialogue box
    Now you have reduced the size of the picture.

Now in order to save the picture as JPEG image, do the following steps:

• Right click on the picture and select 'Save as picture' option
• Give a file name. I suggest you give a different file name. Example if your large picture file is- abc.jpg then you can give the name abc_LowRes.jpg. The next time you look for the same picture, you'll automatically know there is a high resolution picture and low resolution picture. That's neat!!
• Under 'Save as type' please choose JPEG

If you're using Microsoft Office 2003, then the Microsoft Office Picture Manager can help to reduce the size of a picture easily.I'll share that in my next bit.