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My email account is with a cable co. When I transfer pictures as an
attachment they get sent too large for my dial up friends. How can I downsize
them form 589kb to a more manageble 39.8kb?

 

[Jim Macklin]

download the XP Power Toy Image Resizer. Or use a
photo-editing program such as Photoshop Elements or
IRFANVIEW to change the picture from bmp or tif to jpg.


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| My email account is with a cable co. When I transfer
pictures as an
| attachment they get sent too large for my dial up friends.
How can I downsize
| them form 589kb to a more manageble 39.8kb?

 

[Bruce Hagen]

To add to Jim's reply, if you take the picture from your HDD and *Insert* it
into a message body, the entire e-mail will be smaller. Attachments increase
the size by about a third.

 

[R. McCarty]

Interesting, Why is that ?

To add to Jim's reply, if you take the picture from your HDD and *Insert*
it into a message body, the entire e-mail will be smaller. Attachments
increase the size by about a third.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

I don't know the *techy* answer. I've heard why, but I don't remember why.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

One other possibility, compress the image into a "zip" file. The file will
be smaller and would not be refused by mother firewall. Look at a utility
like WinZip.

 

[t.cruise]

If you are talking about JPG image files: If the images themselves are physically large,
as digital cameras and scanners might create, use a graphics program to resize them (and
save them to a new name if you want to retain the original). Why send an image whose
physical size is 1024x768 when 800x600, OR SMALLER, will do? Also, with JPG images, you
can change the amount of compression, which will make the file size (not the physical size
of the image) much smaller. Some graphics programs use the user friendly term of Quality,
but it is still compression that is being changed. If you use a program like ThumbsPlus,
and save the image to another file name, and change the Quality setting in the Save as box
from 100% to about 86%, the visual change to the image will be almost unperceivable
(quality settings lower than about 86% WILL be perceivable, the lower the setting, the
poorer the quality) and the size of file will be reduced greatly. If you use Paint Shop
Pro, in the Save as box, when you save as a JPG, you can click on the Options button and
use the slider for the amount of compression. Others can probably recommend free graphics
programs, with JPG quality/compression options, if you do not have either of the two that
I have mentioned, which are not free. A JPG file can be reduced to as much as 1/3 or 1/4
of its original file size at 86% Quality/compression. If resizing and quality/compression
are not the solution for you, because you are using an image format other than JPG, open
the file in a graphics program, and opt to save it to the JPG format. BMP files are
notorious wastes of drive space. If you save a BMP file to the JPG format, you will be
surprised by the huge difference in file size.

 

[t.cruise]

For many file types WinZip will compress. JPG files are already compressed. Zip a JPG
file and you will see that the file size is the same...
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[PA Bear]

Nah, the pic's still "carried" as an attachment (no matter what you see)
with the same ~37% markup, and inserted into an HTML email the markup's even
greater, Bruce.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

OIC.

Bruce

Nah, the pic's still "carried" as an attachment (no matter what you see)
with the same ~37% markup, and inserted into an HTML email the markup's
even greater, Bruce.

 

[PA Bear]

Right-click on the pic in its store folder > Send To > Mail > Windows will
offer to make the pic smaller before attaching it.

If it doesn't:

Enable Resize Graphic - Send To (Line 269, Left)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[Jim Macklin]

If you use the right click (on the jpg or bmp file) "send
to" mail, you should get a popup asking if you want the
image reduced or same size.


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The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm



|I don't know the *techy* answer. I've heard why, but I
don't remember why.
| --
| Bruce Hagen
| MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
| ~IB-CA~
|
message
| | > Interesting, Why is that ?
| >
| > | >> To add to Jim's reply, if you take the picture from
your HDD and *Insert*
| >> it into a message body, the entire e-mail will be
smaller. Attachments
| >> increase the size by about a third.
| >> --
| >> Bruce Hagen
| >> MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
| >> ~IB-CA~
| >>
| >> "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm>
wrote in message
| >> | >>> download the XP Power Toy Image Resizer. Or use a
| >>> photo-editing program such as Photoshop Elements or
| >>> IRFANVIEW to change the picture from bmp or tif to
jpg.
| >>>
| >>>
| >>> --
| >>> The people think the Constitution protects their
rights;
| >>> But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
| >>> some support
| >>> http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
message
| >>>
| >>> | My email account is with a cable co. When I transfer
| >>> pictures as an
| >>> | attachment they get sent too large for my dial up
friends.
| >>> How can I downsize
| >>> | them form 589kb to a more manageble 39.8kb?
| >>>
| >>>
| >>
| >
| >
|

 

[Jim Macklin]

Or IZARC which is free and does more compression formats. I
like the interface better too.


--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm



message | One other possibility, compress the image into a "zip"
file. The file will
| be smaller and would not be refused by mother firewall.
Look at a utility
| like WinZip.
|
|
| | > My email account is with a cable co. When I transfer
pictures as an
| > attachment they get sent too large for my dial up
friends. How can I
| > downsize
| > them form 589kb to a more manageble 39.8kb?
|
|