Reducing the size of a photo

[Robert Hodgins]

> There are three options:
> - reduce the size,
> - reduce the detail ('quality' level)
> - a combination of the above.
> 
> Resizing is usually done in the editing-part of a program. Setting the
> amount of detail is done in the Save-dialog of a JPEG-file.
> 
> In The GIMP, you can resize the image using the menu-option
> 
>    Image > Scale Image
> 
> If you want to reduce the quality, select File > Save As, select the JPEG
> filetype (or let the filename end in .jpg), and click the Save-button.
> Then, you can set the quality-level in the following dialog, and preview
> the resulting image and filesize by checking the "Show Preview in image
> window" option.

That's really well explained. Thanks.