Sending Large Photos By Email - Help!!!

tonyfaestoney

danzeg wrote:

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!

You could use Photobucket, it is free & easy to use, just forward the links to whoever you wish to view the photos.

http://photobucket.com/

moomintroll_3

I agree with ejones999... You shouldn't even be attempting to send 40MB worth of files by email - by the time they're encoded you're looking at something like 60MB or even more worth of data to download. Even on a broadband connection that's going to take a while and may well fail. Email was designed to transfer text, not large files.

If I were you, I'd use my free webspace from my ISP to upload the zip file then email a link to the zip file to whoever is going to be interested. Alternatively, you could use a service like yousendit to send the link instead...

G

fubar_2

danzeg wrote:

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.

You have saved them as BMP files you should really save them as jpeg

see these 2 files

650Kb bmp file

30Kb jpg file

both are the exact same picture but as you can see the jpg one is 20x the smaller file.
You will loose a little quality by converting to jpeg, but you should try it and see if it is acceptable.

djohn2002uk

Another recomendation for yousendit. So easy to use. Just enter their email address and upload the whole file as a Zip if you want, just to keep it to one file and they will be notified when you've finished uploading. Alternatively, put your own address in and send the link to them by email yourself.

tigermatt

fubar wrote:

You have saved them as BMP files you should really save them as jpeg

see these 2 files

650Kb bmp file

30Kb jpg file

both are the same picture but as you can see the jpg one is 20x the smaller file.
You will loose a little quality by converting to jpeg, but you should try it and see if it is acceptable.

Further to fubar's post, you can see from the links that the pictures look and seem exactly the same, except they have file size difference of 620KB. Save your files as a JPG and then try.

Another option would be to use an online photograph album. I recommend http://www.piczo.com/. I have seen a few sites made with this website and for just showing photographs, it should be fine.

tigermatt

danzeg

ejones999 wrote:

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.

Thanks ejones999 and moomintroll, i phoned up Homechoice and they told me how to use my webspace!!

I also changed it to JPEG, and there was a difference in the size!!
I tried to send it on yousend it, but it came up with the page could not be displayed.

Thanks to everyone for getting back so quickly.

Hope you all have a great christmas!!


Thanks: tigermatt, espresso, meclive, tobydog27, ejones999, Soulistic, tonyfaestoney, moomintroll, fubar and djohn2002uk......
(Basically everyone who got back with comments!)

fubar_2

Danzeg,

If you change the file to jpeg and you notice nothing different in the size then I'm afraid you have done something wrong.

You can open the bmp file in paint the go to file / save as and select jpeg from the drop down option, look at where it is saving the file to, as I think you may still be looking at the bmp file rather than the new jpeg file.

You should be able to reduce you file from 50MB to around 5Mb by useing the jpeg format.

tigermatt

fubar wrote:

If you change the file to jpeg and you notice nothing different in the size

Danzeg said there was a difference in file size:

danzeg wrote:

I also changed it to JPEG, and there was a difference in the size!!

danzeg wrote:

Thanks: tigermatt,

That is quite alright!

tigermatt

fubar_2

My eyes, my poor old eyes

Sorry Danzeg I misread what you posted.

Cheers tigermatt for re-enforcing what I already know..... time for me to get eyes checked

fubar_2

No I dont...No I dont...

Danzeg edited his post to reflect the change of size...whoohooo...I dont need glasses :):)