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EHM-0654 Murray:
Never took you for a masochist Rico :)

Strictly speaking, you *can* use paint for such things, but it's not the easiest piece of software to use for it...

EHM-1001 Robert:
If you setted the correct resolution, adjust the compression ratio so the image will not overrun 150 kByte, being another limit on the SSL gallery.

EHM-1671 Ben:
I used paint for all the screenshots I've taken, but they're too big to upload onto the EHM screenshot gallery. What do I do?

EHM-0654 Murray:
Ben,

Best thing I can suggest is get yourself a copy of a reasonable image editting suite (older copies of Paint Shop Pro often turn up on magazine cover disks here in the UK) and use that to "repack" your JPEGs. I was using PSP 7 for a long while, and only upgraded to 10 recently.

Visually high quality JPEGs at a resolution of 800x600 and file size below 150KB are easily achievable, especially if you are willing to sacrifice colours and hold them to a 256-colour (color :)) palette.

EDIT: In the word's of Reeves & Mortimer's character Greg Dickson, "No, no, no, what am I saying..."; there is, of course, the entirely free (if a little flakey, last time I used it under Windows, but that was well over a year ago) GIMP - http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

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