Problems with the painful procedure for placing pictures...

[ezdays]

I'm jumping in here a bit late, but MIkey is right, what I do is use a photo editing program called, "PhotoPlus". It's like a few others that I've played with over the years, but I can set my picture size by either pixels or inches, then when I go to "export optimize", I can select a % of quality that will tell me what the end filesize will be. It's usually anything from 100% down to maybe 80% depending on the original picture size and I think content. I always make sure my pics fit within the maximum allowed.