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Most of us, at one time or another, want to email a photograph to a friend. If both you and they have an ADSL2 connection that's not a problem, but if you or they still have ADSL1 or—perish the thought!—dial-up it can be a very slow process indeed. Why? Because most standard digital pictures measure close to 1.5Mb, and that's too big to send.
If you use Windows XP (it probably works with Vista too, but I haven't had the opportunity to try it out) there's an easy way to reduce the size of the image to make it easier to send.
First, find the picture you want to send and RIGHT CLICK on it. Then click "Send To" in the drop down menu that opens. Next click "Mail Recipient". (You can also do this for more than one picture at a time by highlighting those you want to send before right clicking on any one of them.)
Next a dialogue box will appear. The title bar will read "Send Pictures via E-mail". Leave the default setting "Make all my pictures smaller". Click OK.
Your email program will now open a "Compose Mail" window showing your pic/s as attachments. You have only to add the address and type any message you want to send with it. (It's probable that your Email software will display a message like "The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Bridge Climb 6.jpg" which you may leave in our delete, as you wish. It won't affect the attachments if you delete the text.
There you go! It's so easy to do and your friends will thank you for taking the trouble.
 This pic of last year's U3A Hawkesbury trip reduced from 1.38Mb to 99.8Kb—an enormous reduction. |