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Compress images

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- [Instructor] This is a bulky document. And the reason is the resolution of the images that are used in this document. This document actually takes up 27 meg, which is a little ridiculous because there's only four pictures in it. I'm going to choose any one of them. Choose picture tools. And click on compress pictures. I'm going to turn off the apply only to this picture choice because I want to compress all the images in my document at the same. I'm not going to keep high fidelity. This is the original picture. I just need HD. This is good enough. Now if we were going to print this document on a high quality printer that was better than 330 PPI, I might choose high fidelity. But in this case, I really don't need to. I'm going to click okay. And I'm going to save this document. And I'm going to save this as compressed so that I can see the difference. If I now go to file, I've cut this document size almost in half. It's still a really big document. And not a document that I would…

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