tita1948 Loc: North Idaho

My sister wants to print some of my pictures for her office wall. Can someone please tell me the best way to send her the digital image, flash drive, CD, large email, or any other way?

As always thanks for your help.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

The best way is via email, but that would depend on how big the files are and how large a file your email provider will handle. Also, if it is a lot of pictures, then a flash drive or CD would be the way to go.

The are also free sites that will send large files, do a google search for sending large files and you will find a number of them, in case your email provider balks at large files. I use Comcast and can send huge files. Your sister needs to accept large files as well, so send a test, and don't put in a bunch in one email.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I've found anything larger than a 5MB attachment gets to be a pain on both the sending and receiving end. Lots and lots of transfer services, one free one is dropsend.com. Use them up to a single 2GB file and send 5 free files per month. Create a single compressed / ZIP file containing many pictures / files and upload and send an email to the recipient who can the download on their end via a link to the file on the dropsend site.

If you don't have a *good* internet connection, sending something physical is easier overall ...

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I've take to sending my larger files and photo's on a SD card. Depending on the size of all files would determine the size SD card. The group I work with often I have video files along with the stills. So a 16 Gig SD card is often used. I use the SD Card because it drops the postage due from Dollars to Cents. Just cut a piece of card board to fit the envelope and scotchs tape the SD card to it. I get the SD card back after there down down loading it.

Another way is to ask them what size photo they want and have it printed at there locale Wally word, they can pick it right there. Stables or Costco will also provide that service.

tita1948 Loc: North Idaho

Thank you everybody. I do like the SD card idea best.

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

CHG_CANON,

For most photographic images a .zip archive will only group the files into a single file, there will be no compression as the images have already been compressed in their final save process. If the sender and receiver do not thoroughly understand internet security issues the .zip archive will never reach its intended destination. Most computer systems with Anti-virus and Firewalls will block all file attachments with the .zip extension.

If you have a group of small images you can group them all into a .zip archive, after saving the group as something.zip you can then change the extension to something.txt and the attachment will fly through all the security blocks.

When the attached file reaches its intended destination, the receiver will have to save the .txt file to the local hard drive and change the .txt to .zip to open the containment package.

If you are using Winzip to create the archive container you can also save it as a self extracting archive. This allows the receiver to save the attached file to a place on the hard drive, change the extension from .txt to .exe, and double click the .exe file to extract all the images contained in the archive.

The downside to all this is the complexity of all the supported tasks to get the file you can use.
With Winzip saving the final archive as a self extracting zip file (.exe) only the sender of the file needs Winzip. If the file is sent as a .zip file the receiver and sender will need to have an application capable of opening a zip file, or Windows XP Pro to extract the received zip file.

The last I heard Google Gmail would accept up to 20 Mb of file attachments in one message.

Michael G

tita1948 Loc: North Idaho

Thank you. But I'm not that savvy when it comes to zip files.

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com
Google's Drive http://drive.google.com‎
Microsoft's SkyDrive http://skydrive.live.com
Google's Picasa Web Albums http://picasaweb.google.com
... http://www.google.com/#q=how+to+send+big+files

Armadillo Loc: Ventura, CA

That is why I included to suggestion of Gmail.

Michael G

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

Zip file works if both parties know what they are doing.

In my opinion, Flash drive or cd are your best options. If you image is to be display on a wall you want a large file for printing.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

The one advantage of burning a DVD is that you can purchase specifically made mailers for them, including reinforced mailers that prevent damage.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Open a free flickr account(yahoo) and create a set just for your sister. Then just email her the link to that set. She can download any or all of the pictures by right clicking on one and selecting the original size and "save as" then select a place (ie pictures file).

By using a flickr account you will also have a cloud storage backup for your photos in addition to your computer and or external hard drive.

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

Just upload the photos to the Walmart photo site. Then your sister can order the prints herself and pick them up at the nearest Walmart.

Or you can order the prints yourself and have them picked up at your sister's nearest Walmart.

bersharbp Loc: Texas

Lots of good ideas, especially for multiple photos. If I want to send just one, I create a duplicate in PSE, resize, and send.

AWD265

I was going to advise what MisterWilson did.

Send small files of the pics to your sister and let her chose which ones she would like and the sizes.

When you have the choices, send those pics to a Walmart, CVS, Walgreens et al and your sister can pick them up locally.

You will be able to load 2MB files or larger for each pic and will know after you've loaded them if the size of the file is big enough for the minimum quality required.

I use Walgreens and collect my pics after an hour or so.

Hope this helps.

Norman.