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Jul 3, 2017 06:52:18   #
mborn Loc: Massachusetts
 
pdsilen wrote:
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a potential client as a portfolio sample for an up coming gig. When I tried to email them to the prospective client, my server kicked back the email stating, "DID NOT DELIVER." As I inquired I found the my images had too many megapixels. The only way I was able to submit the photos was to email them one at a time. Needless to say, I doubt if I'll get the contract. My question is this. To avoid this situation from happening again, Is there any way I can shrink down the images and what can I do to keep this from happening again?
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Ue DropBox https://db.tt/juXNR0D0rh and send the link to the photos. I do that all the time

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Jul 3, 2017 06:59:38   #
catshoe Loc: North Wales
 
Google image services used to be Picasa, which I stopped using when they started 'automatically enhancing' your photos - arghh. In these circumstances, in fact in all circumstances, DROPBOX is your friend. I use it all the time for pro work, and clients regard it as pro standard.
The other option is, does your own website easily allow another quick gallery via a blog post or something like that? That has also worked for me

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Jul 3, 2017 07:02:34   #
Inglese
 
As somebody else here suggests, just re-size them in whatever editing system you are using. Make them, say, 60% and they should go fine. I do this frequently with large files

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Jul 3, 2017 07:07:24   #
rmm0605 Loc: Atlanta GA
 
pdsilen wrote:
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a potential client as a portfolio sample for an up coming gig. When I tried to email them to the prospective client, my server kicked back the email stating, "DID NOT DELIVER." As I inquired I found the my images had too many megapixels. The only way I was able to submit the photos was to email them one at a time. Needless to say, I doubt if I'll get the contract. My question is this. To avoid this situation from happening again, Is there any way I can shrink down the images and what can I do to keep this from happening again?
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I use Photoshop to resize the photos to a smaller size (lesser quality).

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Jul 3, 2017 07:22:49   #
JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco
 
rmm0605 wrote:
I use Photoshop to resize the photos to a smaller size (lesser quality).


I often send photos resized to 1500x2100 and saved as a highest quality JPEG and they come in at an easily e-mailable 2Mb or so.

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Jul 3, 2017 07:30:07   #
Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts
 
So you are worried that you won't get the job because you had to email the pics one at a time? If you don't get the job it will more likely be because you didn't upload them to a cloud service like google or one drive. Sending them via email is now the equivilant of sending via pony express. Clients find it much easier to view online and download from there. It takes no space on their computer and they can open it instantly to view on their screen.

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Jul 3, 2017 07:34:19   #
pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY
 
pdsilen wrote:
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a potential client as a portfolio sample for an up coming gig. When I tried to email them to the prospective client, my server kicked back the email stating, "DID NOT DELIVER." As I inquired I found the my images had too many megapixels. The only way I was able to submit the photos was to email them one at a time. Needless to say, I doubt if I'll get the contract. My question is this. To avoid this situation from happening again, Is there any way I can shrink down the images and what can I do to keep this from happening again?
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dropbox - put all the photos there and send a link. I think you get one terabyte free. To note, when you send a photo you have no idea what program they will use to review the pictures. Hopefully the samples are either low quality or watermarked such that they can't be scalped. As others have suggested you can significantly shrink them and get them through the mail but the quality will be questionable.

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Jul 3, 2017 07:50:35   #
georgiapeach2 Loc: Georgia the Peach State
 
You can always put the pictures on a SC card and mail it.
Photoshop has a program click on file click script and Image processing.

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Jul 3, 2017 08:05:31   #
SusanFromVermont Loc: Southwest corner of Vermont
 
pdsilen wrote:
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a potential client as a portfolio sample for an up coming gig. When I tried to email them to the prospective client, my server kicked back the email stating, "DID NOT DELIVER." As I inquired I found the my images had too many megapixels. The only way I was able to submit the photos was to email them one at a time. Needless to say, I doubt if I'll get the contract. My question is this. To avoid this situation from happening again, Is there any way I can shrink down the images and what can I do to keep this from happening again?
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You have received a lot of good suggestions for how to deliver images without re-sizing. But when you send full-size images you need to protect yourself by watermarking. However, if the client is just going to view online, downsizing is easy to do. In LR, I export them to a specific file and make the changes in the export dialogue. My preference is to convert to .jpg, reduce the size such that the image will look good, but is still not going to print at top quality and add a watermark. My email program has a limit of 25MB, and using this method I can usually send 5 images at the same time.

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Jul 3, 2017 08:27:20   #
Levoqd
 
I use this program all the time. It's free and does not require you to download it onto your computer. Wetransfer.com

Enjoy!

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Jul 3, 2017 08:33:53   #
RichardSM Loc: Back in Texas
 
Water marking is easy to over come, a better way is to encode in your photo a mark that is unseen for security purposes, that is if your are uploading in full resolution.
Or as stated above upload your photos in low resolution jpegs if you are worried someone is going to snake your photo's.

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Jul 3, 2017 08:38:03   #
gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast
 
If the pics are only going to be viewed on a monitor they can be sized down to 1024x768 with a target file size of no more than 500kb. Our photo club does this for pics to be emailed in the monthly judging contest that are evaluated by trained judges. If it's good enough for them it should be good enough for your client I would think.

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Jul 3, 2017 08:59:43   #
Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee
 
pdsilen wrote:
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a potential client as a portfolio sample for an up coming gig. When I tried to email them to the prospective client, my server kicked back the email stating, "DID NOT DELIVER." As I inquired I found the my images had too many megapixels. The only way I was able to submit the photos was to email them one at a time. Needless to say, I doubt if I'll get the contract. My question is this. To avoid this situation from happening again, Is there any way I can shrink down the images and what can I do to keep this from happening again?
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a ... (show quote)


Do you use Photoshop? If so, do you know how to write an action? I have written an action that in a single click takes my high res 16 bit tiffs and converts to 8 bit, resizes, and saves as a jpeg to a folder that I have named "email photos". Anyone interested I will be happy to share.

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Jul 3, 2017 09:10:58   #
aellman Loc: Boston MA
 
pdsilen wrote:
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a potential client as a portfolio sample for an up coming gig. When I tried to email them to the prospective client, my server kicked back the email stating, "DID NOT DELIVER." As I inquired I found the my images had too many megapixels. The only way I was able to submit the photos was to email them one at a time. Needless to say, I doubt if I'll get the contract. My question is this. To avoid this situation from happening again, Is there any way I can shrink down the images and what can I do to keep this from happening again?
I recently took a series of photos to submit to a ... (show quote)


Resize (if the client does not need to see full res). I have found if I shrink them down to about 640x480, I can email several. Or use a service like Dropbox or the Google equivalent. You upload big files and the client can download them with your permission. That's the best way. Just make sure you give your client clear instructions for download. >Alan

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Jul 3, 2017 09:25:06   #
Tomcat5133 Loc: Gladwyne PA
 
Dropbox it is free unless you want much bigger memory.

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