Bette, I agree with Barry. Never reduce the size of an original photo and use it as the "new master from which copies are made". Once you make a photo smaller, you've lost the resolution you once had, and you can never get it back. Making a copy of the master for e-mailing for one-time viewing is another matter. Once they view it on their computer screen, they can toss it. However, you would not want to send a reduced size copy to someone who is going to be using it to print pictures from it. You would want to send a copy of the master at its original size. They wouldn't be able to get the original resolution back with a reduced size copy. Irfanview is a popular, excellent image manipulation sofware, and free. It's as good as my Paint Shop Pro V8.1. I never did like Picasa, as it makes "albums", but doesn't move pictures and appears to, and many get confused by what Picasa is doing and not doing. Irfanview can reduce the size of the pictures for you. If you have pictures too large for e-mailing, you can send them through http://www.yousendit.com. It's free. Ignore the membership and fee inferences. If you need more hard drive space, buy an external drive, preferably the new portable types that don't require a clumsy power supply. The portables are very small in size and get their power from the USB connection. Woody ========================== barry@yobunny.co.uk writes: Hello Bette, Sunday, June 14, 2009, 6:21:37 PM, you wrote: B> How can I reduce the file size of individual photographs - to save B> space - and make them smaller to send by e-mail? There are quite a few programs to do this, from fully fledged graphics ones such as IrfanView / Picasa or ones specifically for this one task such as JPG Size. However, reducing the file size does also reduce the quality of the photograph and this cannot be restored later so if you are having a space issue on your system dues to photo storage the better way of dealing with it is to increase the storage space with a larger HD. Note that you will see help pages that say you should remove images to prevent the system from slowing down - this is often old information from when the sizes of Hard Drives were low and too many images could lead to Windows not having enough 'head room' to work with. Also the CPU's were a lot slower so again the extra information could make the folder slow to open due to the number of images to process. Modern PC's have much larger HD's and faster CPU's so storing masses of photo's isn't going to cause any performance issues until you get enough to cut the free space down to below 1Gb ( Windows still needs over 500Mb of free HD space to pay with ). So the question is, how much free space do you have ?? -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty' **************Download the AOL Classifieds Toolbar for local deals at your fingertips. (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolclassifieds/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000004)