How do I email 26 photos in one email?

lonestarfan

Hi everyone. Could do with a bit of training/help. I want to email 26 photos to the insurance company of the flood damage. I've done 9 emails and attached them in batches of 3 due to them keep being undelivered due to size. How do you email large items like this? TIA.

Browntoa

upload to Flickr, photobucket or somewhere and send them the link ??

debitcardmayhem

Either make them smaller using your favourite photo editor or use photobucket / dropbox / onedrive or similar
Beaten by Browntoa :j

Parsimonia

Browntoa wrote: »

upload to Flickr, photobucket or somewhere and send them the link ??

I agree with this suggestion. Or Dropbox?

Nilrem

Generally you can't email large files in a single go, many email systems have a limit on the incoming size to save space on the server, and protect the system from potential denial of service issues*, and many ISP's/email services limit the size of attachments on outgoing emails.

Roughly what are the size of the pictures you're trying to send?
Quite often unless you're going into high detail you don't need them to be big - a 1024xwhatever picture is usually enough for a lot of situations, and massively smaller in file size than the full unshrunk picture from most cameras and modern smart phones (for example a 1024x768 picture can be quite good quality at <100KB, but a 10MP image at 4kx5k will usually be closer to 5MB, 50 times larger in file size)


I would be tempted to send small versions of them as attachments, and upload larger ones to a picture hosting service (or your isp might give you some space), and include links in the email.
That way they could look at the small pictures and if needed click on the larger versions.



*If you allow too big an attachment size a company could find it's internet connections/servers getting blocked up by large numbers of large files.

thenudeone

zip them up then send using https://www.hightail.com/

mttylad

If you zip them you can make what is called a spanned archive file - this is a zip file in several pieces.
Perhaps in sizes of 8mb each, this can be sent in individual emails then recombined at the other end.

10mb is the limit for file attachments on many server, maybe not yours or the receiving end but possibly some of the routing servers in between.

As has been said - upload them to the cloud instead.

debitcardmayhem

thenudeone wrote: »

zip them up then send using https://www.hightail.com/

Jpegs don't compress very much , but it will of course waste time, use the suggestions above

WTFH

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Jpegs don't compress very much , but it will of course waste time, use the suggestions above

Sorry, the first time I read this I thought "what a load of tosh", but then on re-reading, you're right. They don't compress much because they are a compressed file as it stands.

First step is to reduce the image size to a max of 1024x768. Your 20megapixel phone camera is producing far too big a file. Shrink it down to the size of a screen.
Crop them down, too.
Next, be selective with the number of images. They don't need 5 shots of the sofa from different angles, if you're trying to show how high the water was. Including rulers or measuring tapes in the images adds scale.
Use words to describe details and try not to be too emotive. Saying "the water was 40cm deep" is a better description than "it came over the top of my wellies". You're writing to an insurance company, not trying to get a job on Sky lies, sorry, News.

debitcardmayhem

WTFH wrote: »

Sorry, the first time I read this I thought "what a load of tosh", but then on re-reading, you're right. They don't compress much because they are a compressed file as it stands.

.....snipped

Glad I haven't lost all my marbles then :cool:

thenudeone

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Jpegs don't compress very much ,

but it will create a single file which can be sent using the service I suggested.

It hardly takes seconds to zip a number of file and send it by a service like that.