Can I save space on my PC by making large photo files smaller? I have a lot of images stored on my PC taken with my 10-megapixel digital camera. I know I should have changed the setting on the camera or down-sized each image after downloading but I didn't. The image size averages at 4 - 6 megabytes. I would now like to free up some memory on my PC by reducing the image sizes. Is it possible to do this by highlighting, say, a folder of pictures and reducing their image size en bloc as opposed to doing it image by image? Tony Service, by email As I see it your problem is not so much size of your image files, but rather the lack of storage space on your computer. Instead of compressing your photos, which will inevitably result in a reduction of quality, why not add a second slave drive to your computer? If that's not practical, or you are not keen on messing around inside your PC, get an external drive, which plugs into one of your PC's spare USB ports. A one terabyte internal or external drive, for example, which cost from around £70.00 online from the like of Amazon, can store something like a quarter of a million images, which should be enough to be getting on with...