I took new photos of plants in bloom and intended to attach them but the size is over 1,000kb for each photo. The file manager says the limit is only 49kb. I can't seem to reduce them that much and still have a photo that you can tell what it is.

Is there some secret to doing this? I don't know much about the camera does it have a setting i should adjust? Any hints would be appreciated.

Just upload your photos to Imageshack instead. Imageshack is right below "Manage Attachment".