Blake Loc: Alfred NY

I have a Sony Alpha 300. The picture largest seting on my camera is a 10.2 mp. If I send a full size picture to someone by email it will overload their email box. I do know how to resize both the camera and by using photoshop Elements 8. My email allows me to send a file that is 20 mb max. I would like to know just how big of a picture I can send without overloading my email or theirs. Thank you for your input

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

That depends on THEIR email provider. Some kick back any attachment over 1mb in size, others like Gmail have no limits. You need to find out from your buddy what his/her email provider's limits are. Then reduce to no larger than that size.

Another option is to use an online service like Smug or Flickr or whatever and point your friend to it.

Blake Loc: Alfred NY

Thank you Sir, I will do that

steve_stoneblossom Loc: Rhode Island, USA

Are you sure about Gmail? Have they upgraded? I have had emails kick back over 10mb in the past.

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

As of 9/25/11, Gmail's attachment limit is 25mb. Sorry.

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8770

steve_stoneblossom Loc: Rhode Island, USA

Better than 10... thanks for the good news!!

Paw Paw Bill Loc: d

If you reduce the size in camera, then shoot a great photo that you would like to print, you are stuck. Leave the camera on maximum size and quality. You may get a few gems of the kids, friends, rare event, bigfoot, ufo, etc.

You get the picture?(yes, stupid pun intended)

Check your 'help' in Elements for 'Resize'. It requires only a few mouse clicks to use 'Resize' and is very easy. When the resize window pops up simply look for the size of the current photo in pixels. It will have some number there such as 3200,4500,etc.

This number varies with your camera's sensor specifications and menu settings. Change only one number. It should be the first one (its the number of pixels along the top edge of the photo). Make it 1080. I know an odd number, but it is something a standard. You could actually make it any number, but this one is convienient. The second large number is the pixel count up and down of the picture and it should change automatically by default in relative size to the number you entered.

Now you have a picture with a size approaching only 1 meg. Now use 'save as' (not save) to save the photo as a jpg. When doing this select the 'Medium' quality in the
dialog box. Change the name so you don't overwrite the original on the disk. For identification purposes, I usually use the same name as the original with the word "small" added between the original name and the '.jpg' extension.

This will give you a set of photos that are perfectly suitable for e-mail and viewing on the computer. You probably will get 5 to 8 pics per meg.

If the recipient wants to print the photo in a size bigger than 4 x 6, then you may want to double the size and quality and send 4 or 5 per e-mail post to get better quality to them.

Paw Paw Bill Loc: d

Sorry about the full explaination on resizing, since you did say you knew how.

The information that you requested is there, but there are a number of 'newbies' here that may be attracted to this thread by its title and many of them don't know how.

This satisfies both needs at once.

DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

Many thanks. Your instructions benefit more people (me) than you might have thought.

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

Same here, PawPaw...I too am one of the discrete learners on this site. Thank you.

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

Gmail! Recently sent 36 shots to multiple recipients; no problem. I don't resize. If GMail has a problem, it will let you know. Have used it for years without issue.

Swamp Gator Loc: Coastal South Carolina

Is there some special reason why you want to send a large image file to someone via email?
If it's just for pictures to look at regular jpeg images can be resized down to 1000 or smaller on the long side and end being being a 200-300 KB file and show up fine in email.
You could send a dozen of 'em at a time no problem.
And are you looking to send jpegs?
A 10MP camera at highest quality jpeg setting probably produces around a 3MB file. Not too huge, but I would never send a 3MB image file to somebody's email just for them to look at.

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

I notice quite a few pictures on UHH are around 800 x 600 or vice-versa. They seem to fit my monitor screen nicely using the +100 magnification (normal). And they look good, too.

Bob Powell Loc: Wilmington, OH

Another alternative is to put them on the web. I use Picasa and/or Google+. and then send the link via email.

kjfishman Loc: Fulton MO

I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. When I "insert" an image I can customize the size of the photo. You can also "attach" the full size image if you like. Most of the time I just want to share an image so there is no need to send the full size unless the recipient wants to make a print.

A lot of internet providers give you some free space on the web that you can post images. Then you need some software like Coffee Cup FTP to upload images.