Having trouble with emailing...

[plastic penguin]

...pictures and text. The text is in normal case size and I've attached pictures but it's coming up as 'Your message wasn't delivered to anyone as it is too large. The message is 35MB. Your message is 41MB.

Are they referring to the pictures or text?

Windows Vista and email is Outlook.

Please help.

 

[chebby]

The pictures will take up the most room.

Do a 'save for web' on them (or on a copy) before attaching. And resize the pics if necessary.

 

[plastic penguin]

Cheers Chebby.

 

[plastic penguin]

Can't anywhere to resize. I've looked on the online tutorials and they say bring up image and click on file. There's a section for resizing picture. Not on my Vista.

 

[RobinKidderminster]

Plenty of free photo apps where the size can be reduced. Then resave and repost. Maybe 20mb limit? If there are several photos then post them separately. The text is likely to be tiny compared to the photo even if its a book!

 

[spiny norman]

Can't anywhere to resize. I've looked on the online tutorials and they say bring up image and click on file. There's a section for resizing picture. Not on my Vista.

Sign up for Dropbox, which is free with up to 16GB of storage, and send them that way. You upload them, share them and the recipient gets sent a download link.

 

[MajorFubar]

Surely there's an program built in, like Preview on the Mac, which allows you to resize images? Sorry not trying to sound condascending in any way but I'm unfamiliar with Windows other than the cut-down locked-down Enterprise version at work which has nothing but the bare-bones needed to do our jobs. But surely there must be?

 

[plastic penguin]

Can't anywhere to resize. I've looked on the online tutorials and they say bring up image and click on file. There's a section for resizing picture. Not on my Vista.

Sign up for Dropbox, which is free with up to 16GB of storage, and send them that way. You upload them, share them and the recipient gets sent a download link.

Thanks SN - I'll give that go tomorrow.

 

[plastic penguin]

Surely there's an program built in, like Preview on the Mac, which allows you to resize images? Sorry not trying to sound condascending in any way but I'm unfamiliar with Windows other than the cut-down locked-down Enterprise version at work which has nothing but the bare-bones needed to do our jobs. But surely there must be?

Agreed - seems bonkers to me that modern piece technology can't resize or edit images.

 

[PJPro]

You could try downloading Paint.Net. Nice, simple and works . Here's the link.

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Or simply use Paint (which comes with Windows).

 

[MrTeroo]

Try Picasa

https://picasa.google.co.uk/

It will catalogue all your photos, display them in a nice way, very useful programme.

you can email photos from Picasa and it will resize them automatically for you.

 

[bigboss]

If email is outlook, you get free storage at www.onedrive.com using your outlook email id and password.

 

[plastic penguin]

BB - I saw that on Outlook. I clicked on it but not sure how to retrieve the photos.

I could also download them on Flickr and reduce the size - would that work okay?

 

[bigboss]

The easiest thing you can do is, right click on the picture file and select "open with", then choose paint. Once the picture is opened in paint, simply save it again. File size is automatically reduced.

 

[plastic penguin]

The easiest thing you can do is, right click on the picture file and select "open with", then choose paint. Once the picture is opened in paint, simply save it again. File size is automatically reduced.

Thanks, I'll have a goosey now.

 

[MrTeroo]

The easiest thing you can do is, right click on the picture file and select "open with", then choose paint. Once the picture is opened in paint, simply save it again. File size is automatically reduced.

No, the easiest thing you can do is install Picasa and then email the photos from within Picasa.

They will all be resized for email automatically. No 'open with' one by one. No 'what size should they be?' No duplicate files. No danger of turning an important hi-res photo into a crappy low-res version by saving over it.

And as an added bonus you get a great programme to view and edit your photos with for free.