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Wampa-One
The dimensions are fine, it is the 80 kb size limitation that these do not meet. (The recommended size for a widescreen DVD-quality picture should be around 40-50 KB.)
The free program http://www.xnview.com/ works well for resizing. I cannot download it to my current location, otherwise I would be able to explain it better. Basically, I open the .jpg file with XnView and then just enter the maximum limiting dimension (720 pixels width for widescreen or 500 pixels height for standard 4:3 aspect ratio) and save the resized picture as the one I contribute. I do not know all of the technical details of what XnView does, but it somehow compresses the image so that the file size is much smaller. As an added benefit when the dimensions get smaller, the appearance of some images seems to improve.
I can try to provide more details tonight from where I have the program downloaded.
The free program http://www.xnview.com/ works well for resizing. I cannot download it to my current location, otherwise I would be able to explain it better. Basically, I open the .jpg file with XnView and then just enter the maximum limiting dimension (720 pixels width for widescreen or 500 pixels height for standard 4:3 aspect ratio) and save the resized picture as the one I contribute. I do not know all of the technical details of what XnView does, but it somehow compresses the image so that the file size is much smaller. As an added benefit when the dimensions get smaller, the appearance of some images seems to improve.
I can try to provide more details tonight from where I have the program downloaded.