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shaun40400

hi been trying to send photos by e.mail
but keep getting mail back as they are to large.i can shrink photos but want to send about 10 and it will take all day,,,
photos are 9million pixels

Can anyone point me to a easy to use/learn zip system
will my friends need the same system?

cant enter Microsoft pages as it asks me to unlock something than goes off line .
using yazoo and Mozilla fire fox
thanks in advance

custardy

i use winrar.
for a simple zip/rar you just right click on the file and select "add to archive *file name*.rar and it does it from there

let me know if you need ot go more advanced

personally i upload my photos onto the likes of photobucket and let recipients view/download from there

Little_John

You need to keep the email you are sending to below 10mb includeing attachments. most mai servers either limit the mail box size to 10mb or individual emails so that is your limit.

You may want to make use of somthing like rapidshare, zip or rar your files then upload the file to www.rapidshare.com and then send the link to the file for them to download.

Cerro

Izarc, Winzip and Winrar will all do the job and are all very similar.

Izarc however is completely free (although you can donate to the guy who made it) and covers the most formats.

But having said that, photos are usually fairly well compressed as it is and don't normally shrink much when zipped.

Otherwise upload your files to a free photo/picture sharing site like flickr or photobucket. Alternatively you can use an storage site like rapidshare (as already suggested) or yousendit.

shaun40400

ok best just to shrink photos myself
so whats the advantage of zip files if email is restricted?
where do i get winrar??

Little_John

www.rarlabs.com

Do you really need the recipient to be receiveing full sized images? it would be best to reduce the file size, normall opening and saveing the file in PSP or photoshop will reduce a 2mb file to 800k with the JPG compresion set correctly with little quality loss to most people's eye.

in the past compresion methods were poor if they existed, wav and bmp files, zip and rar would reduce the file sizes in order to get them on floppys and allow spanning of floppys but now we have mp3 and jpg both are compressed formats.

mostly

flickr is you friend. If the pics are jpeg then rar'ing or zipping aint going to make much difference.

ABH_3

shaun40400 wrote: »

ok best just to shrink photos myself
so whats the advantage of zip files if email is restricted?
where do i get winrar??

The advantage in raring the files would be that you can set a size at which to split the .rar volume ie: 10MB chunks. So that when all the .rar files are received and put into the same directory on the recepients computer, they can decompress the files.

You can download winrar here: http://www.rarlab.com/ if you also tick the 'include recovery record' option during creation of the archive set, then it means you only have to send the files once, as providing the recepient has a copy of an archive program they can repair the files should they be corrupted during transfer.

HTH

shaun40400

thanks for all the help