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If you are talking about JPG image files: If the images themselves are physically large,
as digital cameras and scanners might create, use a graphics program to resize them (and
save them to a new name if you want to retain the original). Why send an image whose
physical size is 1024x768 when 800x600, OR SMALLER, will do? Also, with JPG images, you
can change the amount of compression, which will make the file size (not the physical size
of the image) much smaller. Some graphics programs use the user friendly term of Quality,
but it is still compression that is being changed. If you use a program like ThumbsPlus,
and save the image to another file name, and change the Quality setting in the Save as box
from 100% to about 86%, the visual change to the image will be almost unperceivable
(quality settings lower than about 86% WILL be perceivable, the lower the setting, the
poorer the quality) and the size of file will be reduced greatly. If you use Paint Shop
Pro, in the Save as box, when you save as a JPG, you can click on the Options button and
use the slider for the amount of compression. Others can probably recommend free graphics
programs, with JPG quality/compression options, if you do not have either of the two that
I have mentioned, which are not free. A JPG file can be reduced to as much as 1/3 or 1/4
of its original file size at 86% Quality/compression. If resizing and quality/compression
are not the solution for you, because you are using an image format other than JPG, open
the file in a graphics program, and opt to save it to the JPG format. BMP files are
notorious wastes of drive space. If you save a BMP file to the JPG format, you will be
surprised by the huge difference in file size.
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"boprl" <boprl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My email account is with a cable co. When I transfer pictures as an
> attachment they get sent too large for my dial up friends. How can I downsize
> them form 589kb to a more manageble 39.8kb?