Welcome aboard fellow Texan! if your running a system with windows and have microsoft office picture manager, open up my pictures>right click on the photo>click open with(a list of programs with pop up)>select microsoft office picture manager>then in the top left of that program there is a tab for picture>list of options pop up>select compress>then on the right hand side a small vertical screen pops up and you can compress the picture for web pages, emails or documents(of course hit webpages)>then resave ur document and u got it