emailing pictures

[Prudie]

Is it right that my e-mail (Outlook 2010) cannot handle sending 1 jpeg of 3MB (a simple photo)?
It just sits in the outbox clogging up the sytem.

[wildwood]

sorry, but does it have a recipient address in the Send to ?

[Prudie]

err yes wildwood but thanks for covering off the obvious ;-)

[SlackAlice]

Should be able too. Using Outlook 2003 just sent out an email with 8Mb of jpeg's from one of my email addys to another one and it went and came back ok. Took a while though.

Must be you ;)

[Buenchico]

Outlook has a default setting of a maximum file size of 20Mb for attachments. However most email providers set a much lower limit, often around 2Mb. So it's not Outlook which is refusing to send the file, it's your email service.

If you're sending a picture solely to be displayed on screen, you should try to make it a sensible size of no more than, say, 0.1Mb. If you're sending a picture to be printed out at postcard size, you might want to make the file size around 0.3Mb. Bigger sizes are just pointless.

If you really need to send the full size file, upload it to a suitable free service and send the recipient a download link:
https://www.transferbigfiles.com/

http://www.dropsend.com/

http://www.sendspace.com/

Chris

[Prudie]

Thank you Chris. I have tried but err how do I resize it to under 2MB? You don't mean just drag a corner and make it smaller do you?

[jomifl]

Hi Prudie.. You will have to resize it using photo editing software ('Gimp' will do it and is free). It is fairly obvious how to do it but if it doesn't make sense then post again. Alternatively open an account with an email server that allows bigger pictures.

[Prudie]

Hi jomifl. thanks I'll look at Gimp. I also have a hotmail account, would that handle it better? Is my pathetic broadband speed of 0.01MB a contributory factor?

[jomifl]

Prudie, that could well be the problem, I think you would have to get it down to a few Kb to sent it at dialup speeds.

[Buenchico]

The more recent versions of Windows have an image resizing facility built into them but my own preference would be to use Irfanview, which is a free image viewing and editing program which deserves a place on everyone's computer. (it also works on all versions of Windows).

Download and install the program:
http://www.irfanview.com/
Then open your picture in Irfanview.
Go to Image > Resize/Resample
You'll see lots of complicated looking options but just choose a suitable size from the panel on the right. (640 x 480, or 800 x 600 will be fine for most purposes). Click 'OK'
Then go to File > Save As. Check that the file type is set to JPG (not to the default BMP), choose a suitable name (such as 'MyDogX' instead of the original 'MyDog'), ensure that the location is where you'd like it to go, and click 'Save'.
You can then close Irfanview and (using Outlook) create a new mail, adding 'MyDogX' as an attachment.

Chris

[Prudie]

Thank you again for a very comprehensive answer. I'll have a go at the suggestions and see which works! Thanks again.