G'mailing JPG's question
May 30, 2018 12:28:05 #
I have a Cannon P100 printer and I use gmail. My daughter also used gmail but has no printer. She'd like to email a few JPG's to me and have me print them for her. I know that gmail has a max file size that can be send via email and I believe it's quite large, 25 mb ( I think ). What I don't know is how to tell her to size the photos, in Light Room, before mailing them to me for printing. Naturally I'd like them to be sent so that we can best utilize the full 25mb but that's about all I know.
Any suggestions about sizing the photo for emailing it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you !
Any suggestions about sizing the photo for emailing it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you !
May 30, 2018 12:43:55 #
If you have photoshop cc or any photo shop Ctrl alt i drop the hight to 900 enter, that will work fine for e mail Mike
May 30, 2018 12:44:23 #
ricardo7
Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile
She doesn't need to resize them. She just needs to be sure they're not too big to send by way of email. When you get the file you resize it in Lightroom for printing.
May 30, 2018 12:51:03 #
This will drop the size for e mail I think this is what you talking about ?? you are talking about google e mail ??
May 30, 2018 12:56:24 #
Dropbox has a free account available. She can load her files into that and share them to you. You download them, full size. The free account is something like 1.5 GBytes. No problems with email sizes.
May 30, 2018 12:59:26 #
Whether she sends the originals or edited versions, if she can keep the files below 25MB, why not attachment one by one to individual emails and send? If that can't be done, are you both using Dropbox or Google Drive or Amazon Drive, etc? You might also look at DropSend which is free for 5 sends and a maximum attachment of 8GB. She only needs to place all images into a single ZIP file and assure the resulting file is less than 8GB. She can upload to any of these file sharing services and send you a link to the file download and extract the images on your end.
May 30, 2018 14:03:59 #
Mike1017 wrote:
If you have photoshop cc or any photo shop Ctrl alt i drop the hight to 900 enter, that will work fine for e mail Mike
Thanks Mike but neither she nor I have photoshop. We both have only Lightroom.
May 30, 2018 14:07:45 #
ricardo7 wrote:
She doesn't need to resize them. She just needs to be sure they're not too big to send by way of email. When you get the file you resize it in Lightroom for printing.
Thank you Ricardo, " She just needs to be sure they're not too big to send by way of email. " That's the problem. I don't know what to tell her to assure that they're not to big to send.
May 30, 2018 14:09:48 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
Dropbox has a free account available. She can load her files into that and share them to you. You download them, full size. The free account is something like 1.5 GBytes. No problems with email sizes.
Thank you DirtFarmer. I'll go look at Dropbox right now. It sounds like that may solve our problem. :)
May 30, 2018 14:14:45 #
That's cool my mistake I thought you just wanted to get the image did not know you wanted to print. sorry I should of read more.
May 30, 2018 14:22:52 #
Since you have Gmail you also have access to google photos. You can upload a photo at original size and share it with her.
As stated before, Dropbox is another way of doing the same thing.
-edit: needs to be done from a PC
As stated before, Dropbox is another way of doing the same thing.
-edit: needs to be done from a PC
May 30, 2018 14:30:02 #
You don't need to resize anything. Nor do you have to compress anything. JPEGs just aren't that big. The biggest I could find on my computer is 10mb.
If she is not making adjustments, she should send you a direct copy of the original, one JPEG per email. Her copy of Lightroom has nothing to do with it.
If she is making use of Lightroom to make adjustments/improvements, you have to use Export to create a new JPEG to record the adjustments. In the Export dialog, pick "Quality 100".
When you get it, Import into your Lightroom and use the Print module. Again don't resize. Lightroom figures it out for you.
If she is not making adjustments, she should send you a direct copy of the original, one JPEG per email. Her copy of Lightroom has nothing to do with it.
If she is making use of Lightroom to make adjustments/improvements, you have to use Export to create a new JPEG to record the adjustments. In the Export dialog, pick "Quality 100".
When you get it, Import into your Lightroom and use the Print module. Again don't resize. Lightroom figures it out for you.
May 30, 2018 14:54:39 #
Lille wrote:
I have a Cannon P100 printer and I use gmail. My ... (show quote)
If you don't have one already, you both should sign up for a free Dropbox Basic account. You get 2 gb space, so jpeg file size is not an issue. One of you should sign up then refer the other, so the referring account can get 500mb additional space for free.
Your daughter should send you full sized jpegs for best quality.
If you don't do dropbox, then have her send them in multiple emails.
May 30, 2018 15:32:20 #
Great ! Thanks everyone.
I now think I fully understand what to do and we should not have any problems.
Shame on me for even needing to ask !
Appreciate all the helpful posts.
I now think I fully understand what to do and we should not have any problems.
Shame on me for even needing to ask !
Appreciate all the helpful posts.
May 31, 2018 05:49:54 #
Lille wrote:
Thank you DirtFarmer. I'll go look at Dropbox right now. It sounds like that may solve our problem. :)
I have found Dropbox to solve at least my problems with sending pictures and for important reports as well.
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