Shrinking photos in IPhoto

OK, I was a Mac user for a long time (1986-1998). Then I was taken into the evil PC world where I became accustomed too using Photoshop.
I am looking for a way to quickly & easily reduce the size of photos imported into Iphoto for posting on sites that wont permit files larger than 300k.
I go into I-Photo, & it seems like I should be able to choose 'Constrain', pick a smaller dimension, hit 'Done' and have a file that is smaller dimensions & hence smaller size. This never works for me. File size stays the same.
It appears that there is no other way to shrink the size of a file for posting other than going to the 'share' menu which will not work for my purposes.
Thanks for any help

66Pontiac
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Select the pic you want to alter and go File -> Export. In the resulting dialogue you can re-size, rename and even change the format of the pic, then complete the export to the desktop. iPhoto will create a copy there incorporating the changes you made. Upload that file, and after, trash it as it's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
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