birdie

I have been asked to send high resolution photos. If i have a high res photo and If I just hit "send to mail recipient" it seems to automatically cut it down so it is no longer high resolution. If I have a high res photo and click on the icon on the email page and select the photo, it is so huge it covers the screen several times but then is blurry. I am confused as to what they want. Is the huge picture the proper way to send?

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

dropbox

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

I don't know about proper, it is one way to do it.
If it is only one image, that's how I would send it.
Unless, the recipient requests a different way.
Pat

birdie

Thanks Pat, I do have dropbox installed, but have not used it. I do have to send 2 images at once. I do see there is help for using or sending files/folders, but have not really delved into how to do what when it comes to folders. I do not have time now, gotta go warm up my car and get the ice off it and take off.

Al FR-153 Loc: Chicago Suburbs

Unless they want a 'print', you could put them on a CD or DVD for full size, full resolution.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

Put the picture into Dropbox Public Folder, open the folder, right click on the image, in the next menu click where it says Dropbox, in the next menu click on Copy Public Link Then in the e-mail paste the link into the body of the letter You client than clicks on the link and can download the picture. You have to do this for each picture. I used this to send twenty hi-res photos for a project

Radioman Loc: Ontario Canada

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The way I use is to put the picture into a folder/directory and then email the folder/directory. Sometimes I compress the folder/directory into a ZIP file. This will reduce the size of Raw and some TIF but nothing for JPEG.

megalodon

you can also use a website called mailbig file. you can find it here:

www.mailbigfile.com

if it is just 1 picture, no problem. if it if more than you you can zip them together. it's free too.

ygelman Loc: new -- North of Poughkeepsie!

Instead of doing this twenty times, here's a much faster/easier way. Put all twenty in one folder. Compress the files within the folder, giving you an "Archive" zip file. Give the "Archive" file some meaningful name. Put that file into your public folder, and follow the above instructions for sending a link to the file. Your recipient will get the link, download the zip file, and when opened it will reveal all twenty files. (But make sure the dropbox in the cloud has finished receiving the file. It may take minutes, so you can't expect a recipient to get your email and get your images right away.)

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

Unfortunately, saying things like high res is very misleading like your ISP claiming high speed internet. Some are and some are wannabe's or used to be's. People should be expressing actual numbers such as x amount of pixels to the long edge or similar where you have a point of reference. For viewing on a monitor high res can mean 1024 to 2048 pixels to the long edge which would go through most emails. For printed matter then full size is required. That would be camera specific as to the amount of pixels. A 10 Mp would be different than an 18 Mp camera. Ask them for clarification and if indeed they need a large size file then the use of Dropbox is a good idea.

But... as far as the previous advice...Forget the public folder which only allows for one file at a time... Make a new folder in the Photos folder, put all your photos in that and link to the folder. Your customer then has access to all photo files at the same time.

Oh yes, don't archive the files as there are many that have no idea what to do with it. "It won't open for me" is the battle cry of the ignorant.

Clear as mud?

neil1967

Try zeta uploader.
Up to 500M free per month

bunuweld Loc: Arizona

It is not clear what high-resolution means to you in terms of image size. Most email services will accept an image of several mega-byte size as an ATTACHMENT. Check your email server to find how to do it. For Microsoft Outlook you click on a paper clip on the top bar of your message -to-be-sent. If you try to copy and paste the image to your message, either you will have conflicts with size, as you describe, or your email server will reduce its size, but the server will not alter something sent as an attachment. For very large files, you may want to check the link below for some good info:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/askjack/2012/may/03/ask-jack-email-file-sharing-cloud

ole sarg Loc: south florida

US or UK postal service?

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I use sendspace. It will automatically send the recipient an e-mail with the link. Not like dropbox where if it's open to the public someone else may have access to your valuable image. With sendspace, only the person with the link can get it. My e-mail takes forever to load even a 5 mg image, let alone a large one. It would probably never get done on anything larger than that!

avengine

I use ge.tt to send and store big file, you get 2g for free, and one nice thing on it, when you send the file, it will take some time to upload, but the link that you send to the other side can use it and download at the same time,
this case you don't have to wait until it upload then send the link. of courser other side will take time anyway, but just let the computer do the job.
most of our customers using this to send us the digital file for printing on canvas, so far so good.