How to Make JPEGs Smaller Sizes

After you take digital pictures of a family event, vacation or casual encounter, you can save them to your computer as JPEG files. Subsequent to uploading the photos to your computer, you may want to either email them to friends or post them to a social networking site. However, both email and social networking sites may have file size restrictions, and your pictures may be too big to send or post. Photo-editing software lets you make your JPEG images smaller to make them easier to send or post.

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Photo-editing software

1. • 1
     Open the image in a photo-editing software such as Windows Paint, Windows Photo Gallery or another photo or image manipulation program.
   • 2
     Select the "Image" menu and click "Stretch/Skew" in Paint, or an image size menu item if you are working in another document-imaging software.
   • 3
     Select a smaller size file and make sure the smaller image size does not diminish the image quality.
   • 4
     Check the new image for quality, and make further adjustments as necessary. This includes reducing the size further or making it larger, using the tools in the image-editing software.
   • 5
     Save the new image onto your computer, and email or post the new smaller image to the intended recipient.