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"Diaboyos" <diaboyos@aafa.net> wrote in message news:OaIue.73321$6g3.18840@tornado.texas.rr.com...
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> "Jone Doe" <fake@nowhere.org> wrote in message
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>> 1.37 MB (1,442,989 bytes) That's about average for a picture straight out
>> of my camera. If I tried to send that via email, it would take a very
> long
>> time on dial up, and some ISP's will reject over a certain size.
> Thankfully
>> I can reduce it with the reminder and clicking "yes" and send it as 50.4
> KB
>> (51,644 bytes) after it is compressed. As far as I know there isn't a way
>> to defeat this, and keep in mind if your picture is smallish anyway, it
>> won't reduce it by much, so why not use it? How long does it take to
> click
>> "yes" or "no" in the grand scheme of things?
>
> I'm a photographer. Lessening the size of a picture to mail it can reduce
> the number of sells I will get off that picture. I need my potential
> customers to be able to see the picture in its full form. My pictures are
> 1024x768 in their smallest format, and many are larger. It's not a matter
> of life or death, but I can mail several hundred pictures a day and it does
> get very old having to click to keep the original size every time. I'm sure
> if you sent out that many, and the pictures were your income, you would feel
> the same way. So does anyone know if there is a way to permanently keep the
> original sizes?
Why not upload the photos to a server and provide a link? Your potential
customers won't mind. In fact, if they are only "potential", and especially
if they don't know you, you'll probably find that many of them aren't even
dowmloading them due to the size.