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I am an old guy, and not computer savvy, and if I can do it, anyone can. Use a free software program, like Xat, and crop your pictures, very easy, and then compress. I need to figure out if we can increase the file size with a forum software upgrade, but again, I am not a computer geek.
Look int he thread "pictures" and you can see what I did in seconds, after not having done it in several years.