Emailing photo's

Pete.g

My wife is wanting to send some photo's she took recently to some friends, the are 23 in all. I have tried compressing then using winzip and emailing them from her hotmail account but we keep on getting an error message saying the file is too large. We have cut the amount of photo's she is sending down to 10 but are still getting the error message.

Could someone advise us on how we would be able to send all the photo's?

Thanks,

Pete.

espresso

What is the files size of these photos? They will most probably need to be reduced in size before sending i.e. there is no point sending massive images to be viewed on a PC screen.

billycasper_2

Hi there, i think this is a common problem with hotmail. It really wont allow you to send pictures over a certain size.I dont know what the limits are but it is small . Is this the only e-mail account you have ?

j_davies

Why dont you upload them to somewhere like https://www.photobucket.com and then send the link to your pictures.

DrSmutt

this might sound obvious but why not send 23 emails.

you would of probably sent quite a few in the amount of time it took to write your message on this forum.

espresso

DrSmutt wrote:

this might sound obvious but why not send 23 emails.

Depending on how many mega-pixel the camera is, even one image could break the e-mail providers limit.

DrSmutt

quick look found this

Be aware, though, that there's a limit to the total size of attachments to a Hotmail message:

• For free accounts the limit is 1 MB.
• MSN Hotmail Plus subscribers get 20 MB.
  • In this latter case the size of the message itself counts, too.

This means that all attachments to a Hotmail messages together must not take more space than 1 MB. If you want to send something bigger via Hotmail, try sending it in smaller chunks.

Squeekyclean

Photo's transfered to a computer from a digital camera are extremely large, reduce them.
Reduce the size of the photo and this will reduce the size of the file