Reduce FILE size, but not IMAGE size

pardon the blasphemy, but on windows, Paint lets you "stretch" an image to 99%, which reduces the size of the image practically not at all but reduces the file size big time, you know like a 600kb file reduced to 99% the size of the originals ends up at 60kb, or whatever, but is only a few pixels smaller in size. How would i do that on my mac? tried the export thing, but if you reduce size a few pixels, you get bigger file size... know what i'm asking?
MacBookPro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I discovered Edit>Constrain>Custom>Crop>Export (give it a size in pixels). Reduces size and file size.
Self answered.

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