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Sizing of photos to e-mail

16 years ago

My OS is X-P.

All of a sudden, when I e-mail a photo from MY PHOTOS they go out covering about 2/3 of the screen area. This just recently started about a week ago. Prior to that they were going out full screen. I don't think I have changed any settings on the computer or the camera.

Any and all help will be appreciated.

Steve

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owbist
16 years ago
Are you sending these by 'inserting' or 'attached'? If you insert the photo into the body of the email you should be able to click on it to produce 'ears' on all 4 corners. Hover over one and drag your photo in or out to your liking.

Much can depend on the file size of a photo too, are these from your own camera and transferred to the computer? If so did yu change the setting on the camera.
maybee_gw
16 years ago
Owbist...I read somewhere that making a picture smaller like that (the ears) would make it "look" smaller, but the original size would still be the same as far as sending it and that you should put it in a program such as Irfanview and resize it....is this correct?
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esteban_2009
Original Author
16 years ago
owbist,
Thanks for your response. Here is what I found on the net and it works great for my problem.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/digitalphototips/ht/emailpicsxp.htm

Steve
owbist
16 years ago
Maybee, yes you are absolutely right. Making the image look smaller does nothing to reduce the underlying file size. However I got the impression in this case that Esteban was just looking to make them small either to show without side scrolling or to get more text into a given size.

The link Esteban provided to reduce file sizes is alright unless at some point down the road you wish to print or start reworking the photo. In which case it would be easier to simply reduce the file size in the camera settings before taking photos giving you much more capacity but lesser quality.

My camera takes 3 meg photos and I never reduce my originals. If any require emailing I add a number or letter to the end of the photo then reduce that copy for sending. Photos can be reduced with no loss of quality but increasing the resolution degrades a photo.

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