How do I send large digital photos through e-mail?
Q: To e-mail a friend some photos, the picture file must be 600 to 700KB or smaller, otherwise my ISP won't send them. My digital camera's photos are VERY big, sometimes being close to 1.5MB. How do I resize the photos? Do I have to install a certain software?A: Many of today's digital cameras create photos much too large to be sent through e-mail. Many ISPs either refuse to accept them as attachments, or simply bounce them back to your e-mail program. To help out, Windows XP offers to resize your large digital photos automatically when you do this:
- Right-click the photo or photos you want to send.
- Choose Send To from the pop-up menu, and select Mail Recipient.
A
window appears, shown below, asking if it should resize all your photos
or keep the original sizes.
- Click OK to choose the default "Make all my pictures smaller" option.
Unfortunately, if you're using a Web-based e-mail service like Hotmail, Google's Gmail, Yahoo, or a similar program, this trick doesn't work. Since those programs live on the Web, Windows doesn't know how to attach the photos.
Online Web service users can still use Windows XP's built-in resize feature, however, with this trick:
- When Windows opens Outlook Express, drag and drop the blank e-mail's attached photos to your Desktop.
- E-mail those newly resized photos instead of your original photo using your online email program.