Sending Multiple Pictures through E-Mail
Oct 21, 2011 08:41:31 #
I currently use AOL and it is very easy to send/attach pictures. If pictures are only going to be viewed on your computer monitor AOL uses their compression method to reduce the size but only allows 12 pictures to be sent. If you send the pictures full size for printing you are limited to 30MB total. I often like to send more than 12 for simple viewing and not have to send multiple e-mails. Any suggestions? TIA
Oct 21, 2011 08:47:37 #
Hello, I would suggest to use a website like "flickr" to post your work and just send a link to your work through an email attatchment. www.flickr.com is apart of Yahoo.com
Oct 21, 2011 09:48:51 #
Also, I believe Google's GMAIL has no limitations on attachment size. But as Sloppy Joseph has suggested, an upload site like Flickr is best, since you can simply send your contacts a link to the site rather than the picture. Plus, Flickr resizes your shots so they can see them in varying dimensions.
Oct 21, 2011 13:14:43 #
This situation always gave me fits, as well. Not necessarily with AOL, but all hosting ISPs seem to place limits in these regards.
I found DropBox, and it works really well for me. Think of it as an on-line hard drive. You simply put a copy of your photos in a folder in DropBox, go to the DropBox web portal and copy the URL to that folder where you put your pictures. Then, email the URL to those you want to see the photos.
The first 2Gb of space is free and if you need more than that, they are reasonable in their pricing.
I found DropBox, and it works really well for me. Think of it as an on-line hard drive. You simply put a copy of your photos in a folder in DropBox, go to the DropBox web portal and copy the URL to that folder where you put your pictures. Then, email the URL to those you want to see the photos.
The first 2Gb of space is free and if you need more than that, they are reasonable in their pricing.
Oct 21, 2011 14:55:41 #
brucewells wrote:
This situation always gave me fits, as well. Not n... (show quote)
Google documents allows you to do the same. Quick, easy and free.
Oct 21, 2011 15:09:30 #
I use a service that is free up to 100MB but only for a single file. If you convert your pics to pdf you can put them into one document up to the 100MB and send them, using the service at "YouSendIt.com".
Oct 22, 2011 06:25:01 #
Photobucket as well. You can password protect folders that are for "your eyes only" and send the password along to those you want to share with. Yahoo! Email allows 25 megs of attachments. If you allow them to compress your images you can get quite a few. Personally, I don't enjoy looking at multiple photos in an email.
Oct 22, 2011 06:31:07 #
You could possibly give up your AOL account which is one of the worst, and open an account with Google that doesn't have any restrictions.
Oct 22, 2011 06:53:55 #
I am using Picasa with some success. I am technically challenged and find it difficult to make my way around Picasa3 (for uploading albums and editing pictures) and Web Picasa (where I send my pictures and/or albums for limited access to friends and family). Is there another free site with these features that may be easier to negotiate?
Oct 22, 2011 07:04:56 #
I think a blog is a great way to go. I have one at www.delawareviews.blogspot.com. I find it forces me to select only the best photos I take, they are automatically uploaded/backed up to Picasa,and I can set up auto messages to alerting anyone I want that I have a new post, or just send specific people the link. Works great for me. And you dont have to be a member...lots of my friends check out my blog when I go on vacation, but dont sign up as members.
Oct 22, 2011 07:40:31 #
Dblunt76 wrote:
I currently use AOL and it is very easy to send/attach pictures. If pictures are only going to be viewed on your computer monitor AOL uses their compression method to reduce the size but only allows 12 pictures to be sent. If you send the pictures full size for printing you are limited to 30MB total. I often like to send more than 12 for simple viewing and not have to send multiple e-mails. Any suggestions? TIA
If you are sending photos for friends to view online check out Smilebox.com I am addicted to that site and it's FREE. If you sign up for the Free version you only have a choice of three songs to choose from. It has slide presentations, scrapbooks, photos in book form all put to music with captions, invitations printed with your photos. They have a large variety to pick from and have all kinds of holiday and other themes as well. I'm on it constantly sending out photo books with captions put to music. If you like it as much as I do you can sign up, I can't remember I think it is $35 or $45 a year and then you have over 2000 pieces of music to choose from and it is an awesome variety as well. Please check it out and let me know how you like it.
I am so addicted to it I should be a salesman for them. Ha, Ha.
Oct 22, 2011 08:01:59 #
JohnnyRottenNJ
Loc: Northern New Jersey
Often if I want to send a bunch of photos to someone, I'll do a batch resizing of them and then save them to a different folder. I use ACDSee Pro4 (Pro 5 is out and I purchased it but haven't installed it yet on my computer) I like to resize photos down to between 200k & 300k. They still look good in powerpoint presentations or even printed in a newspaper. I submit a lot of photos to my local papers, and at 300kb the photos look fine. I use gmail, but my ISP is Verizon FiOS, and there is still at 10MB outgoing limit on attachments. If you can resize photos and get between 3 to 5 photos per MB, that is between 30-50 photos attached. Plus, I'm sending a bunch of photos in the same time that I would otherwise just be sending one or two. Besides, most people look at photos in an email and then delete them. I always tell friends and family, if they want a hi-res copy of a photo, let me know.
Oct 22, 2011 08:22:05 #
JohnnyRottenNJ wrote:
Often if I want to send a bunch of photos to someo... (show quote)
When I use Smilebox.com I load all photos in full resolution and it goes really fast but if I send it by email I have to break it into many emails if it is full res. I'm telling you check out this site.
I also have the new ACDSee Pro 5 it's great.
Oct 22, 2011 09:29:53 #
Oct 22, 2011 09:56:37 #
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