If I were you, I'd shoot the photos in the camera at the highest possible resolution, and then resize downwards in your software.
If you can afford it, get a copy of Elements 4 or Paint Shop Pro X, as these will make your life easier when resizing, I expect.
Otherwise, if there is no button that lets you "optimize to file size", such as there is in Elements 4, then try resizing your photo down to about 640xsomething, and then do save as, choose JPEG as the saving format, and see if there is an "options" button in the save dialogue box. If there is, click on that. It should show you some kind of quality slider for the save, ranging from 0 to 100. By reducing this down from 100, you will lose quality but make the file smaller. Generally you don't want to go less than about 75%, so if you're finding that you do have to, try resizing the photo to a slightly smaller size instead. |
