sending gifs in outlook

[pagey3]

I am trying to email a gif to someone in Outlook that HAS to be under 25 KB.  I have got it down to 24.4, but when I email it to the place it has to go, they receive it and it has mysteriously grown to 34 KB!  Does anyone know why this happens or how to stop it?

[Hippy]

When your file, in this case a gif, is sent by email as an attachment or as part of an HTML message, it is encoded by the email programme then de-coded at the other end. It does not just send the ones and zeros from the original file. This causes the flie to "bloat" during transit.

If you can get onto a free web hosting site, like www.freeuk.com or http://www.wanadoo.co.uk you can post you files, as big as you like within reason, and then just post the URL to your friend in an email. That's just a few characters in plain text and will use very little bandwidth. Your friend can then download directly from your website without the bloat or the email size limit..

Enjoy! 

[PatTheRat]

Sign up for an account at www.photobucket.com

similar to what hippy says, stores the image on a website and they can retrieve from there if you send them the URL.

alternatively, can u not send it to them as a jpeg, and give them instructions of how to save it as a GIF file when the receive it???

[PatTheRat]

sorry, sending it as a jpeg mightnt actually save them any space.