Problems scanning photo for restoration

[Lisajb]

I have a photo of me that I would like restored, however, try as I might I cannot reduce the filesize enough to post it.

I've scanned it as colour (its b/w), at 300 dpi, cropped it and I still can't get it to the required filesize - its still 986kb.

I've read the tutorial and followed the suggestions, but still can't reduce it enough.  Could anyone help?

[sarah]

Hi Lisa,

You just need to reduce the image physical size a little so it is slightly smaller to reach under 900kb, so if it is 1200 pixels wide take it to say 1100 pixels wide. Hope that this helps.

Regards

Sarah

[Lisajb]

I did find some windows photo editing software thing on the pc, with an option to save as and reduce size. Tried that, got a blank image!

I’ll have a go tomorrow, too late to get annoyed with computers now.

It’s a good photo - it has garden gnomes as well as me!