Everyone who owns a web site will ultimately put images on it.
But before you can do that you have to take steps to decrease the size of pictures, as this is of great importance on the internet.
How can you reduce the size of pictures? First of all download Gimp, which I can highly recommend, or any other photo editing software.
Then install it, if you haven't already done so.
Now you need to open the picture, which size you want to reduce, using Gimp.
The first we need to reduce the size of the image in terms of pixels.
Depending on what you want to use the picture for you are going to need different a different height and width of the image.
For me the maximum width is always 560px, but again this depends on your needs.
In order to reduce the size you need to click on Image in the top bar.
Then select Scale Image.
Now simply enter the width you want in the width field and then click on height and it will automatically adjust the height to the pictures proportions.
After you are done click on Scale Image to reduce its height and width.
One last step is to now save the image.
Click on File, in the top bar, and then select Save As.
Now when you save the image as a JPEG you get to choose the quality of the image.
The lower the quality of the image the lower it's size will be.
I usually use a setting of 85-90.
That's it.
Now compare the size of the images.
The one you changed is probably going to be a lot smaller.