What's the best way to email large file photos-8megapixel camera?

Question

I have a Canon Rebel 8megapixel camera, and the pictures come out great, but they are too large to email. My email provider only allows 2mb of space for email, but my pictures are sometimes 3mb. How do I compress them and send them so anybody can open them, without buying Winzip or another costly program?

Answer 1

If they're just for viewing on a computer screen, send smaller copies of those pictures.
Open the originals in your image editor of choice, resize the pictures to 800 pixels wide (and automatically constrain the proportions), and then save them as jpg files with new names. During the saving process, you can usually select a quality setting, too. With Photoshop, I normally use quality setting 7 (out of 12).
This reduces a 5MB original to around 100KB, and on a computer screen they still look great.

If you want to send them high quality files, open a free Gmail account or something. Gmail lets you send 10MB emails, and they give you well over 2GB (!!!) of storage space.
I don't know if you still need an invite to open a Gmail account, but if you do just let me know. (If you click on the green cube to the left, you'll get to my profile. From there you can email me.)

Answer 2

First, even 2MB is too large. You'll only annoy people by clogging their e-mail with such gigantic files.

If you are shooting and know the pictures are going to be for web and e-mail - not printing - turn down the resolution settings of your camera to make smaller resolution pictures.

Zip compression won't help you. JPEGs are already compressed.

As others have suggested, you can reduce the size of the pictures before e-mailing them. Bring them down to less than 1MB (that's ONE megapixel) for e-mailing. That's plenty for casual viewing.

Consider uploading your pictures to a website like Google's web albums or Yahoo's Flickr. You can then e-mail people a link to your pictures instead of the pictures themselves.

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Answer 3

Another option is to use an FTP site, which you can keep private, or use a service like Flickr, Shutterfly and so on. You can upload your pictures and choose to make them public or private. You then send a link for the photo to anyone you want to see the picture. If they want prints, they can order them - and pay for them - if they don't want to download the file and make their own prints.

The two answers above me address your question more directly, though, and I'm just offering this as food for thought.

I'd say OMG's suggestion to get another free account that allows large files is your best bet.

Answer 4

Chances are you're not going to gain much by compressing them - jpeg is already compressed. You'd probably be better off resizing them - at 8 mp they're not going to fit on a screen anyway.

Answer 5

besides the fact that if it extremely is a image , you would be waiting to might want to retake the image and make it an spectacular determination ....... If not , even you have make larger the image , the image may be blur and not clean .... yet is the image is super sufficient yet they say it extremely is small ....then you quite might want to accomplish a little element on your digital mail application via very fact they resized your image without your permission ......

Answer 6

Try an image hosting site like www.photobucket.com which works great, theres also imageshake.com, filehigh.com, geocities.com just to name a few. Maybe www.myspace.com which is popular for posting LOTS and LOTS of pictures. Just tryin to help you out. GOOD LUCK!

Answer 7

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