[...] ive created a banner ad and the file size is 82K. It needs to
be 15K. What do i need to do to rduce file size.
Open the file in Elements. File/Save As... and choose a new file name for
the file. Select JPEG for the file type.
When you click Save, a dialog will come up allowing you to change the
compression settings. Elements does not allow you to change the compression
with as much precision as many other similar programs do, but it should give
you enough control to accomplish what you want.
So, in that dialog, there's a "quality" drop-down. As the quality goes
down, so does the file size. Elements will also show you, down at the
bottom of the dialog, the estimated file size. So you can play with the
compression settings until you get a file size you like.
I'm assuming that the actual pixel width and height of the image is fixed,
according to the specs for the banner ad. If you can make the ad smaller,
that's another way to reduce the file size.
Hope that helps...welcome to the world of digital image editing. :)
Pete