How can I compress my large picture files so I can attach them to my e-mails?

Question

I'm trying to send pictures to a friend, but my pix are more than 1MB. How can I compress them so I can send them?

Answer 1

your email client?

you can always resize pictures using an image editing software, like Photoshop

or if you use Outlook Express, just go to the folder where your picture are and right click on any...attach it to email and it will automatically be resized

Answer 2

you can't really compress pictures(only if they in .bmp or some photoshop formats), if the picture is in .gif or .jpg format then there is no point to compress them, the size won't really change. what kind of pictures are you trying to send anyway? if from your Digital camera(i suppose cuz usually they are around 1MB), why not reduce the size(scale) of the picture using any image editing software? you can usually reslace the pictures and they would be good size(pixels) and only take 100-50k each

Answer 3

Theres a few things you can do.
You can put them in a folder and then right click the folder and send it to a compressed zip folder. then you can attach the zip file.
Orr you can select the image, right click and choose send to mail recipient (assuming ur using outlook) then choose "make all my pictures smaller"

Answer 4

WinRara is innapropiae for that, Try to just open them in an image editor and resize them t oa smaller size. Litterly resizing the image i mean.

Answer 5

If you send them through Microsoft Word it does it automatically. But another way is to go to Google and download their free Picasa program and do it that way.

Nikolas S

Answer 6

added to the other answers right click the image and ope in paint or any other software and click file save as and choose a .GIF extn or JPEG will reduce the size if it is not in this format.

Answer 7

aight all thoses other ways may work but this will b the easiest for u.... open tha files (one at a time) in the paint workshop...... and resize them a little smaller and save as a paint file.... that should work for ya

Answer 8

go to littlepicture.com i think is the website it should tell you how to compress your photos in order to make them small enought or just the right size in order to attach them to your e-mails.

Answer 9

Microsoft Office Picture Manager is very good for this, just open your pictures, and export it to "web large" and save it and attach it to your email.

you can even select multiple pictures and export it.

Answer 10

put so many in 1 folder the others in the next folder make then folders a zip fire and send in 2 email's