I am making a skin for Bebo on paint, how do I get my image smaller? It is 45kb and it needs to be 40kb.?

I am making a skin for Bebo on paint, how do I get my image smaller? It is 45kb and it needs to be 40kb.

I am making a skin for Bebo on paint, how do I get my image smaller? It is 45kb and it needs to be 40kb.?
paint stores the file as a bitmap graphic (.bmp) which basically means LOADS of dots/pixels in rows


if you save the file from paint as .bmp more memory is used up defining each pixel a colour


so you tan take the saved file and open it in photoshop or any other editing software and you should have the option in "Save As" to save it as a JPEG file (which is a vector graphic) meaning that it stores mathematical equations instead of each pixel (which makes the file size considerably samller)
Reply:If you have Photoshop then you can load the image into Photoshop then save the image with a lower quality or simply make the size smaller. Both methods should reduce the images size.
Reply:all you need is paint. open it in paint. then drag it to a smaller size. but just a little. because 5k isnt much of a difference. and then resave it. voila!!!