e-mail photos

If they are made for print they may be 300dpi or higher - but screen resolution is usually set at at 72 or 96 pixels ie a lot lower.

Although the other factor is the computer screen resolution setting ie 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768, or 1280 x 1024 (which is what I use) which affects how much of an image you see.

Regards
Geoff

A graphics dpi doesn't affect screen output at all -- only printed output.

Almost certainly the problem Jason has is Geoff's second point and with a bigger resolution at the sending end than the recieving end. If you make sure the longest dimension of your picture is not bigger than, say, 550 pixels, then it will fit on all screens.

Matthew

Jason

An alternative solution is to tell the "other end" to right click anywhere in the picture and choose save. This will give them a file they can open in a photo viewer. If they have XP just double click on the file and it will come up fitted to full screen.

regards
GEOFF

Jason,

Although Geoff is correct in his second point, I would strongly advise you to never do this to any attached file in an email, ESPECIALLY if you are running a windows OS like XP! (even if you think "it's just a .jpg")

Geoff's 1st point (save to disk) is a much better solution and gives your virus scanner at least half a chance to detect any malware.

Colin

my photos are normally taken at 3mp (2048x1536)or 5mp (2560x1920).i also have options of 640x480 and 1280x960 but think the quality will be poor. as the pictures are of my new baby, i dont want to take poor quality pics.

what were barn owls called before barns were invented?

Use a photo site to hold your pictures and then in your email to the friends and family give them the address of the photosite - their email arrives quickly and at their leasure that can look at the pictures of fruit of your loins (as some would say <g>

Keep taking the pictures at the largets pixel size.

I reccomend and use

www.photobox.co.uk
as a good site and they also provide good quality prints as well

however this leads on to another thread

Derek

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Hi Jason

Are you using XP? If so it is simple to solve. Click the photo in Pictures then Click e mail this file and there is an option to make the pic small. Easy. Even I can do it!

Cheers

Max

Jason

Ideally; you need a compression type application, such as in Photoshop etc:

This allows you to specify the size of the image and the amount of compression applied.

You are then able to save the resulting image to your specified size and image quality, before attaching it to an e-mail and sending it.

On the 30th March at about 11:01 in the following thread
another thread on pictures

I described how to use PMVIEW which is an easier to use tool

Derek

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