[basswipe]

Originally Posted by toonoc

You can do it in Paint by using Image>stretch/skew command from the tool bar

put in some percentage of file size (ie 50% to start) ; use the same for both horizontal and vertical or it will distort. You will need to do by trial and error until you get under the minimum size.

this is the hard way without a good photo program. I forgot how I did it with the photo program before my trial expired, but it was pretty easy --- there was a "resize" command that you could enter the file size directly

That did the trick.