email attachments……help please!

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Thank you all for your help…and to Picassa ! 🙂

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Once more the best forum out there comes to the rescue!

Thank you all for your help…and to Picassa ! 🙂

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Moggy

How do I avoid getting huge images when I attach or send photos in emails?

Thanks for any help.

If I understand you correctly, you wish to limit the size of the image when seen on the computer screen at the receiving end of an email. The way I do this is as follows:-

1> If necessary size the image to the required dimensions in an image editor (I use Adobe Elements), an example image size might be 10 by 8 inches at a resolution of 72 dpi.
2> in elements their is save for the web option in the “File pull down menu” double click on this option and a split dialog box will come up, set the required image quality and click on the save button. (Note the better the image, the bigger will be your image file, not such a problem in these days of Broadband, but at the same time it is still good etiquette to keep the size of the files you send within limits)
3> The saved file can be sent as an attachment to an email and will display at the size you defined.

Note – During the save process you will be asked to give the file a name, remember to do so!

Hope this is of some help!

Note: The attached image has been sized in this way, the file size is only 62.9KB, double click on the image and you will see that the image dimensions are limited.

Regards

Eric

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The most common way to do it is to use a photo editing program like Photoshop or Ulead Photo Impact. Each program is a little different, usually one of the advanced settings is compression, using compression you can shrink the size of the file, but you will lose some of the quality.

Usually the way it works is when you save the photo/file it gives you several choices with the photo editor, typically at his best to save with JPEG until you get the handle of it. Often one of the advanced saving options is a compression setting, often you can set the size in %, or size in pixels, or in height/width.

There are other methods, I think there are some converters that have the ability to shrink or set the size of the file.