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Message:: [QUOTE="Daggarjon, post: 613260, member: 4230"]gif or tiff will get you the best size management, while jpeg will get the best size for color management. Bmp will be the best color, but you lose any savings on file size. in MS Paint, just open the image, and under the 'IMAGE' pulldown, 'STRETCH/SKEW'. In the box that pops up, just enter a percentage you want to shrink or enlarge the image. If your current image is 400kb, and you want to shrink it down to under the 250kb limit, enter a number like 75. If you put 75, the resulting image willbe 75% of the original size. MS Paint is pretty easy and very basic for simple image manipulations. I wouldnt advise using it to enlage and image though. Doing that could very easily pixalate the image, makingit hard to view. Photoshop and GIMP have many more features for photo manipulation, as would any number of other programs. As the amount of features in an App goes up.. so to does the learnign curve to learn how to manipulate a photo. Paint is very basic, and pretty easy for simple manipulation tasks. I would also stick to jpeg for currency images. gif is a smaller file size, but i think gif is limited to a certain selection of colors. The format does not use the entire color spectrum that jpeg ro bmp uses. giff blocks colors to save on file size. Take a look at gif clipart files. You should easily see the differance there.[/QUOTE]