About the picture size reduction, I'm not sure why you do it in Paint. IrfanView can do that too. Open your original image and press CTRL-R. You should get a window like this:
- Simply enter the desired width of your output pic in the circled 'Width' box - Set desired output resolution in the circled DPI box - Select Resample and Lanczos in the 'Size method' section (underlined) - Un-check the 'Use fast Resample' box.
Click OK and you're done.
You can undo and re-do until you're happy and then press 'S' to save with a new file name.
Thanks again Anders. I've become so used to using Microsoft Paint that I was still using it for cropping and re-sizing. I only tried IrfanView for modifying the resolution. I will use your instructions when I make my next attempt.