Sending photos

maggiesoop

Morning all

Can anyone tell me how I send a few photos as an email attachment? At my work I have to take (on average) 6 pics off a camera and send them to another company but if I try to send them straight over they tell me it's too large and their systems don't allow it. I'm now cutting & pasting them into a Word document and reducing the size of each pic, but this is taking an age! Help!

martinthebandit

if you right click on the photos does it give you the 'insert in e-mail' option, or something like it?

Its a while since I have used windows but it is how I used to do it (I think)

dixiebb

if work restrictions in place re size of attachments then u could try sending via the decent dropbox.

http://www.dropbox.com/

ChiefGrasscutter

Depending on the email/ISP provider, they may have a limit on the total size of an individual email for personal/domestic customers ( True corporate Business accounts may have much higher limits).

Obviously the size of the email will be the text plus all the pictures.

I recall seeing somewhere on here previously someone trying to send a 20 MB sized single email and getting blocked. I'd have though that 10MB as a single email size would be around the limit.

The suggestion from others at the time was
a) to upload the photos to a photo sharing website with privacy set accordingly and let your contacts download them from there.
b) zip them up smaller and re-send
b) send them as seperate smaller individual emails if possible - I've done this before on several occassions sending multiple 5MB sized emails.

Squire_Fulwood

I am using Vista. I just open the photo in Windows photo gallery, click the email button and it attaches it to an email in the default email client having asked permission to resize it. Enter the recipients address in the email and send.

macman

Email was not designed to send large numbers of large attachments. Many ISP's impose a limit of around 10MB, it depends on a) on your own ISP, and b) the ISP of the recipient. Whichever has the lower limit will apply. I use Gmail, with a 25MB limit, but many ISP's I send to have a much lower limit.
If you need to do this regularly for work then your company needs to use FTP or a commercial dropbox system..

scheming_gypsy

Right click the picture > open with (mspaint) > if you're using XP or vista there's a stretch / skew option in one of the menus, or it's just 'resize' in Windows 7. Resize to 50% of the original size, save and sent. When you open it in Paint you'll see the exact size of the picture rather than the shrunken version in the image viewer.

Sticking them into Word doesn't change the file size, it just means you're sticking a 6mb picture into a Word document and scrunching it up so it'll physically fit. You don't change the physical properties of the file.

googler

Send 6 e-mails, one picture with each ???

stilltheone

Download and install WinRAR; 32bit or 64bit according to the version of your Operating System.
('Un-tick' Create Program Folder'. Chuck the pictures in to a folder with the name of your choice. 'Right click on the folder and choose 'Add to Archive..', change .rar to .zip and then 'OK'.
Now pop over to MediaFire and click on 'Upload to MediaFire'. Navigate to your newly created .zip file and upload the file to MediaFire. Once complete, copy the resulting link and paste it in to the body of your email. No need to create an attachment.
The receiver will be able to click on the link in order to download your pictures. Sounds complicated, but it isn't. Just run through the steps.

Extra options:

If you create a free account with MediaFire, it will give you more control over your files. You can delete then for instance. Also, if you use the 'Advanced' tab in WinRAR, you can set a password for the .zip file.

RussJK

culpepper

open a photobucket account and post them to photobucket,then send a link to the photos for them to access .