The only problem with size reducing is that sometimes the text gets to small to read
Basically - I moved the files from the source i.e. a camera or phone (in my case the latter) and put them in the core file i.e. where they are going to be stored, in this instance the desktop, for victory it is the main folder, when the photo's have been uploaded to the thread I move all but the last one to the Mayhem sub folder so I know what the last number was.
I use paint to combine several pictures and then in some cases have to reduce that in size again by 80% to remain under 500 KB.
On the reply portion, if you click on Attachments and other options there is a bit below that says Choose file, clicking this opens a dialogue box and you navigate to where you left the altered photo, if there are more than one to upload click on the (more attachments) up to a maximum of 10 and repeat the choose file.
Sorry I thought the combined pictures would still have the text large enough, doh.
Oh! and when you open Microsoft Office Picture Manager - no a picture of my copper coupling will NOT appear