TeaTrekkie

I've always used Paint.net and it's been fine to go down to 2 MB's or less, but lately it seems to want to tell me that my images are huge (when they aren't) and shrink them to teeny, tiny if I do go down to less than 2 MB. I guess I'll ask my son about all this tonight. I just wanted to try and figure it out myself, but I can see that might not happen.

I am running into a problem with resizing a picture. It needs to be less than 2 MB to place in an ad online. I opened the 2.57 MB picture in paint and went to resize it. After clicking on that, it says 'New size' at the top of that pop-up at 22.7 MB. Why is it so much bigger when I didn't even do anything to it yet? What am I doing wrong?