Emailing pictures????

I usually use photoshop but I think there are websites that will resize them.

You might want to consider uploading them to flickr and sending the link.

Thanks Ron. I will give it a try.

Get a photobucket account and then send your recipient a link to the photos.

solution one: don't take the pictures in high-resolutions. see your camera manual/menu for details.

benefits: no work later
cons: if you want a higher quality picture, you have to go back and take it, or have major quality loss.



solution two: choose a program (ACDSee is what i used when i was a windows user) and let it do all the conversions for you.

benefits: you can store the HQ originals in case you need them
cons: you have to install a piece of software and familiarize yourself with it


free/open source solutions to solution two:
ifranview
picasa

i am not sure of the current state of these projects, i am not a user of either since my transition to linux.


i don't really have suggestions for a paid/closed source program, i haven't ran one of those in years.

Thanks so much, George and James.

An easy way to resize an image on any Windows computer is through Paint. Start, All Programs, Accessories, Paint. Once in Paint, click File, Open, browse to the image and click it. Then click Image, Stretch/Skew, and type a number smaller than 100 in both the Horizontal and Vertical boxes. For instance, if you want to reduce the image by half, enter 50 in both boxes. The smaller image can be saved with a slightly different file name, so that you have both versions.

My camera downloads to its own software (I'm assuming most do). There's a setting in the software to change height and width. I accidentally changed mine and the downloads to the forum and other sites were humongous until I discovered what I had done.