Compressing digital photos

[matt_london]

<PRE>I've just shot my first lot of photos with my first digital camera. I've put them on to iphoto from my camera and I must say I was quite pleased with some of them. So pleased in fact I decided I wanted to share them with my family, however all the photos are between 1 and 2 megs in size which is not particularly email friendly. How can I compress them so I can email them.I will want to keep a version of the uncompressed pics though. Thanks </PRE>

[LeMarchand]

If you're using the current version of Outlook, there is an option to send compressed pics.

If not, Google for and download Irfanview (it's free!). It's not the prettiest program in the world, but it's easy to resize your photos and it handles batch processing too. (You would normally save the compressed images in a different folder and/or with a different name so that your originals are untouched).

[robber1]

The really easy way is if you use Windows XP. Right click any picture, choose "send to mail recipient". A box will open with about 3 choices. Click "make smaller" (or words to that effect). XP automatically makes that picture small for e-mail and opens a blank message with the picture ready to send as an attachment. All you do it type in who you are sending it to etc.Your original picture is untouched.

You can also download a Windows picture resizer which can be found on their website. This makes copies of a picture alongside the original.

[robber1]

Yeah, I use Irfanview and Photoshop. For speed and convenience though the standard XP way is good.

[fo3nix]

matt said that he uses iPhoto, so I assume he's on a mac.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=165514
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=165616

One of those (try the top one first) may solve your problem.

[commoner]

..mmm...robber1, is that something you have to set up? I tried it and all I got was a new email message form with the file attached....no sign of a resize feature like the one you described..................how come? Anybody else tried this?...............commoner.

[gary baldy]

as fo3nix says matt is smart enough to own a mac. What i do is drag the photos you want to send onto the desktop , open them in Preview, then go to File> Save As and lower the image quality a notch or two. Simple as!

[Evorg Enaj]

Yes, it works for me, but at first it did not. I had to try it several times and ultimately a box appeared in the top LH corner. It works with left or right clicking. Can you attach more than one picture to the e-mail that appears, and, if so, how, please? Or is it only one picture with each e-mail?

[matt_london]

<PRE>Thanks everyone for your help. I found another way last night and if your interested here it is - Using iphoto select the photos you wish to email, then choose share then email and you get the option to resize the selected photo(s) before it automatically attaches them to a new email in Apple's mail application. Simple really.... </PRE>

[gary baldy]

Ah - nice one matt! Dont use apple mail myself so never used that facility but whatever works well for you then its all good isnt it? It being mac there was bound to be an easy solution wasn't there?
Happy snapping!