Saving and Emailing Digital Pictures

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

DW is saving pictures from her new digital camera into her laptop. They are huge, the kind you can click in the lower righthand corner to zoom in and zoom out. It's like when you zoom in you can see a fly from 100 yards!!!

It is next to impossible to email them as attachments.

What do we have to do to change that, say to make them smaller, normal picture, that will email easily.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

Jim,

Try this link Windows XP - Resizing Pictures It explains the why and the how.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Thanks.

Of course in Ole POC, with WIN95 or whatever, it didn't help. So I'll go get DW's laptop and see what's going on there.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Also, you can set your digital camera to take photos at 3 MB or at most 5 MB for personal use or posting on computer or internet. The file sizes are much smaller.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

It appears that in the laptop I have been able to edit it using stretch and skew, with some cropping, from 3.5 MB to 54 KB.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

Also, you can set your digital camera to take photos at 3 MB or at most 5 MB for personal use or posting on computer or internet. The file sizes are much smaller.

Unless you are certain the the photos will only be used on the internet I would always use the settings that create the biggest file initially. You can downsize images after the event, but you can't recreate detail that is lost when using smaller file sizes.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I have a Kodak program that shrinks the photos, perhaps your camera came with some software programs to do that also. The emailing problem is usually because the attached photos exceed size limits- usually 10mb.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

10 mb is huge and certainly not the sort of size you want if all your desire is, is for people to view images on screen. An image of 300 or 400kb, if properly resized, is more than big enough for that.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

My Stretch and Skew method did the trick. I sent out some emails with two photos attached, and everyone is happy.

My resized ones are 40-50KB.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I usually take mine down to under 200 kb for posting on web pages. Larger images take more time to download and can lead to exceeding bandwith limits.

[angle Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close angle]

I like to take photos while traveling. All my photos are my favorite. Thanks for your info.
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[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Jim, keep your original size photo images in tact so make a copy of the ones you want to email. Picasa will let you email smaller sizes effortlessly and you keep the original size in tact for printing or make changes to. It's a free program and you can have your web albums too. It's very easy to use.

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[gophish Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close gophish]

Yes use Picassa or whatever post processing program you find that you are comfortable using to resize photos down in size so the file sizes are smaller for emailing or for putting on web sites, but if at all possible always shoot at large sizes and keep original photos. These original larger size files have much more detail in them and if you want or need to crop smaller portions of the photo or print them you will have the detail you need for these operations.
Also, when emailing try to determine if possible what the person you are sending the photos to will be doing with them. If there are just for viewing on the computer them make smaller files and they will be fine, but, if they need to do any printing of the photos you will need larger files again depending on the print size needed.