Sending Large Photos By Email - Help!!!

danzeg

Hi everyone...
I am trying to send old family photos that i have just scanned. They have come out quite well - better than the picture. However, they all add up to 40.3mb. The largest photo is 5.5mb. The email providers i have tried (hotmail,yahoo,aol,gmail etc.) are not letting me send the files - even when i compress them using winrar or making them into .zip files.
I would like all the photos that i send to be the same size as how they are and not in any way made smaller.
Please someone help me!!!
Thanks
Daniel

Oh, and merry xmas!

tigermatt

I think you are going to have to shrink them down and make the size smaller if compressing them into zip files doesn't work. However, have you tried sending them individually as seperate e-mails. e.g. Send photo 1 in email 1, photo 2 in email 2, photo 3 in email 3 etc.

Have you tried lowering the resolution you are scanning them at? Scaning at a high resolution (I think) means that you obviously get more detail, but it uses up more space on disk.

If you do need to make the photo files smaller, try using Irfanview.

Alternatively, see if there is anything on Google that can help: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=photo+compress&meta=

I hope this helps, tigermatt

espresso

What format have you saved these pictures in?

If they are jpg files, they are already compressed so zipping them will not make much difference!

It may be the the e-mail providers that you are trying to send them to would not accept such large files anyway.

I assume that you have tried sending these pictures one at a time?

danzeg

well.....i used my scanner...don't no what resoulution, using the hp program....i copyied the image straight into paint...it saved as .bmp. As far as compressing>>>>when i used the .ZIP it went down to 20mb and using winrar it came down to 16mb....but most email providers i suppose dont like sending large rar files. i even halved them - as in 8mb on 1 8mb on other...but even on yahoo, gmail, hotmail....it still didnt work.
Yes i did try sending the photos one at a time...but some photos are about 5mb and that seems to high for the email providers.

espresso

If the purpose is just to display these pictures on a monitor at the other end, there is no point creating files of higher resolution than the monitors can display!

It sounds like you need to adjust the resolution (dpi) when you scan these images and also save them as jpg files which will be much smaller.

danzeg

would this work if i was to edit the picture on paint and then save it as JPEG? will it be the same resolution?

espresso

You can't change the resolution with Paint. Personally I would download Irfanview which is an excellent and FREE piece of software.

If you open your scanned images using Irfanview, you could re-size/re-sample them to a more suitable size for e-mailing. Forget Paint, as it's useless in comparison.

:rudolf:

meclive

Reduce the size of them using photoshop/fireworks or an online image otpimizer.

tobydog27

I suggest you use "Visualizer" from this web address:-

http://www.freeimagebrowser.com/

Once installed...open program...select folder were photos are stored on your hard drive....select 4:3 asspect ratio and click "Resize"....

A Resized folder is created within the original folder...

I find this size is excellent for attaching to my Emails....

Hope this helps.

jonesMUFCforever

Does your ISP not offer space to upload digital pictures which you can then 'share' with friends and family? If not look at something like Kodak photoshare which does much the same thing.

Soulistic

There is an alternative, if you're willing... the basic premises is that you send the person you want a link to the file hosted on a server. Something like the temporary image storage locations, only this is for large files. As I remember, they allow you to upload up to 1 Gig for free! Here's the site:

https://www.yousendit.com

There are a number of other services, but, this one offers the most, and doesn't require you to sign up for an account or anything. Another example is:

http://www.uploadhut.com/

Anyhow, hope that helps!