How To Send Pictures in an Email

The Christian Counter

How to send Pictures by E-mail

With the growing popularity of the digital camera, many people are taking pictures and attempting to share them with their friends and family online. Many times, this is met with frustration because the pictures have such a large file size that they overwhelm many e-mail servers. What you need to do, is create a smaller version of the picture to send via e-mail.

If you are using Windows XP, there is a fairly easy way to do this...

1. Open your "My Pictures" folder by clicking on "Start" and then "My Pictures".

2. In your picture folder, find the file you want to send by e- mail, and right click on it, point to "Send To" and then click on "Mail Recipient". If you want to send more than one picture, you can highlight a group of pictures by dragging with your mouse, or click on the first picture, hold down your shift key and then click on the last picture.

3. A small window will appear that gives you the option to make your picture smaller, or keep the original size. Just chose "Make all my pictures smaller" and then click "OK".

4. This will open up an e-mail message with your smaller picture already attached. All you will have to do, is fill out the rest of the e-mail and send it.

The nice thing about this method, is that your original picture is not changed, Windows just makes a smaller copy of the picture and sends it.

1. Once you have Irfanview installed, open the program, and then use the "File" and "Open" commands to find and open your picture.

2. With your picture open, click on "Image" in the menu bar, then click on "Resize/Resample". The Resize/Resample Image window will appear.

3. Make sure the size method section in the lower right hand corner of the window has "Resample (better quality) selected and that there is a check mark in the box that says "Preserve aspect ratio".

4. The easiest way to quickly reduce the picture, is to click the "Half" button until the size of your picture is down to the size you want. Something that is 300 to 400 pixels would be a good size, then click the "OK" button.

5. Now you need to save this smaller copy of your picture. Don't just click on "Save" because you will lose your nice high resolution picture, instead, click on "File" and "Save As".

6. In the Save As window, change the file name of your picture, I usually add the word "small" or letters "sm" to the beginning of the file name. That way, I can quickly locate the new smaller file when attaching to my e-mail message.

7. Now, lets attach the new, smaller picture to your e-mail message and send it.

First, open your e-mail program, this will work similarly in all e-mail programs, I am going to use Outlook Express because that is what most people are currently using.

In Outlook Express, click on the "Create Mail" button to open a new e-mail message.

Enter the e-mail address of the person you are sending the pictures to, and type a subject for your e-mail. Now to attach the picture, click on the "Attach" button. Notice the picture of the paper clip? This is a universal symbol that stands for an attachment.

When you click on "Attach", this opens up the "Insert Attachment" window. You will need to open the folder containing your pictures, usually pictures are stored in "My Pictures", so double click on the "My Pictures" folder to open it.

Once in the "My Pictures" folder, click once on the picture you want to send, or, if you are sending more than one picture, click on the first picture, then hold down the "Ctrl" key and click on other pictures you want to send. Once you have selected your pictures, click on the "Attach" button.

Now that you are back to your e-mail message, you will be able to see that your picture is attached, you can write a message to go with your picture, and when you are all finished, click the "Send" button to send the e-mail on its way.

Elizabeth

If you don't have Windows XP, you will need a program to make a smaller copy of each picture before you send them.

A free, and easy to use program that I like is called Irfanview. You can download it at www.irfanview.com If you need help downloading, check out my download tutorial Here this should help you download and install Irfanview.