Sending photos by email:
Assuming you are using Windows XP and the photograph(s) is/are stored in
the proper place, i.e. in the
My Pictures
folder
,
compress the photos as follows .
Sending one picture
Open the folder
My Pictures
and find the photo. Click it, then on the left hand blue panel click
Email this file.
A dialog box labelled
Send pictures via email
will pop-up .
Choose
Make all my pictures smaller
and click
OK
.
(If the dialog box does not appear and the photo is sent straight to
Outlook Express, you have a problem. Click
Here to resolve the problem)
After clicking
OK
, the Outlook Express window will pop-up with the compressed picture
already sitting in the
Attachment
field.
Complete the email in the usual way (enter the recipient, the subject and
write the email content) and send it.
To send higher quality pictures
choose
Show more options
. Look at the bottom article in the the right hand column -->
Practice by emailing a picture to yourself.
Sending a group of pictures
Open the
My Pictures
folder and find the photos. Click on them (select them) by holding down the
Ctrl
key and clicking the photos you wish to send. Then on the left hand blue
panel click
Email the selected items.
A panel will pop-up labelled Send pictures via email.
Make all my pictures smaller
and click
OK
. The Outlook Express window will pop-up with the compressed pictures
already in the attachment field (the pictures sent will have the same
dimensions, but their files will be compressed) .
Now write the email and send it.
Improve the quality of emailed pictures:
Compressed photos have reduced quality but are suitable for most purposes
except producing large prints. You can send better quality compressed
pictures by using the above method; but instead of selecting
Make all my Pictures smaller
click the words
Show More Options (underlined in blue).
In the next panel ro pop up you will see 3 compression options. The bigger
the figure chosen, the less the picture will be compressed, its quality will
be higher, but the picture will take longer to send and receive.
The compressed size for a one Megbyte picture
will be as follows:
Small (640 x 480) final size 64Kbytes
Medium (800 x 600) final size 95Kbytes
Large (1024 x 768) final size 152Kbytes.
NOTE: compression also reduces the the physical dimensions of the
picture, but this is usually a very good thing as photos down loaded from a
camera are far too big for a computer screen.
