Linda Ewing Loc: Lincolnshire,UK

Hi Guys

Really need some help, I am trying to send some photos as an attachment in Apple Mail so that the person at the other end can open and use them. Its for a shoot I did a while back.

Each photo needs to be quite large and as perfect a resolution as possible to be printed in a magazine at some stage.

When I click on the 'paperclip' and browse, they are far too small and cannot be done anything with or opened at the other end.

Is their anyone who can walk me through this please.

I have a desktop Mac and Macbook Pro CS6 & LR5, sounds strange but I have never had to do this before and I am getting soooo frustrated that I can't do it.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

I send my large photo files by Dropbox instead of my mac's mail program. It's free and it does not tinker with your file size or format, so it arrives exactly as you meant it to.

RegisG Loc: Mid-Tennessee

:thumbup: :thumbup:

Linda Ewing Loc: Lincolnshire,UK

The only problem I have is that the person receiving them does not have dropbox that is why I am trying to send via mail but I cant even find out how to send them as a pdf

RON 11 Loc: Pittsburgh

What I had to do was export them with the largest file size I could muster, 16 bit TIFF to my desktop and burn file onto cd and mail it to recipient. A simpler method is to just have them sign up to dropbox.

donald johnson Loc: Carlsbad CA

drop box is FREE. it allows pics up to 2 gigs in size at least. Come to think of it I once sent a 3.8 gig video with it. I have a 50 gig drop box and keep many things in it. one of my cams automatically uploads as soon as I shoot a pic.
Don

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

I don't think it matters but this person should surely be advised to sign up anyway. The link to the file will be emailed to the recipient. They can choose to have it downloaded to dropbox (if they have it) or to their usual download folder. i just did tested it, and was able to send a full size photo to my husband, who does not have dropbox, and he was able to download it at full size.

Apple mail is not the best program for sending attachments. I have read that the next version will address that problem. I use gmail and mail.com which are free and accommodate larger attachments that you can more easily control the appearance and format of. I am assuming that you do know you can control the size of the image on apple mail with the little drop down menu on the right, after you attach your file you click on the size and choose actual size. You do have to be patient while it sends, it'll sit in the outbox a while first. You may have to email each photo separately.

Wendy2 Loc: California

You both can have a free dropbox. I use it in my photography business.

You could also send them through a gmail email account. If you don't have a gmail account, sign up for one. It is free too. You can send large files with gmail. But if you have too many files, you can send groups through email or use the dropbox instead.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Dropbox has a "Photo" folder. You create a folder in there, place your images in it, then do ctrl-click on the folder name to bring up a context menu, pick "share dropbox link" this will provide the url of that folder and put it into your clipboard. Then you can paste it into the body of an email.

But, if you need to make the image to specific pixel dimensions, quality, resolution and file size, you can do that in the export dialog in LR. Just ctrl-click on the file either on the film strip or the image in the editing screen (develop or library module), and select the export - not the option to email. There you can specify everything you need to satisfy your client - and save it as a preset if you anticipate doing this a lot. The email destination can be part of the preset.

hpjb Loc: Eindhoven, Nederland

I always use "wesendit"
you can send files up to 5 Gb for free.

good luck, Henry

kenpic Loc: Edmonds, WA

Try using www.wetransfer.com. It is free for up to 2 GHZ and I have had good luck. (they will try to get you to upgrade to the 10 GHZ version, but you don't need to. Basically, it's like sending an email.....