Reducing size of iPhotos

I have an individual photo in my iphoto library - I want to upload this to send to a magazine - the original image is over the 1 MB limit.
How do I reduce the size of the photo?

File -> Export.
Set the Kind to Jpeg
The Jpeg Quality setting affects the File Size
The Size option allows you to manipulate the dimensions (length by breadth) of the image
Regards
TD

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