I'm using PictureIt Express to do the resizing, and after a lot of experimentation (I always hate to click on an option that I'm not familiar with, lest I get led too far away from where I am). I shrank the pixel size, I shrank the resolution, all to no avail. The picture here was finally cut down to 500 whatevers wide, with the height kept proportional. I think it's around 60 kbytes: below the limit for posting here, anyway. I finally got brave (fed-up) and clicked on "Options" in the program, and found a sliding scale to set compression, supposedly at the expense of picture quality. After more fooling around, I was able to take a photo that I had cut down to the 480 X 640 size, at, I think, 600 ppi, set the sliding scale at 20 (if I recall correctly, the higher the number, the worse the picture quality) and ended up with a photo that I posted in the March Photo Contest. My monitor, an early, steam-powered model, doesn't give me a very good idea of the way the picture appears when it's posted (almost no red tones, so all of the colour is "off"). The photo is one that I've used before, and while I like it, there are already better ones posted there. However, I figure that I'm a winner anyway just 'cause I managed to get the damn thing posted. By the way, the original picture on the cd is about 1200 kbytes.
Wayne