big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

First thing to know is what is the resolution of your work computer. Mine is 1920x1080. Once you know that, then you resize your photo to match one of those numbers, usually the largest. Some cropping may be involved to fit the screen exactly. In my case I would resize to match the largest number, 1920. I would then find my file to be 1920x1280 (my shots follow the 3:2 ratio, 640x3=1920 and 640x2=1280) so I would then need to crop the 1280 to 1080 removing whatever I deemed not worthy so it would now fill the screen. Then simply send the file to yourself as it will be the smallest it can possibly be and will fill your work screen. No need to worry about megabytes, kilobytes, gigabytes, mosquito bites etc. Leave that aspect to the great unwashed.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Put it on a thumb drive & up load it at work.

Nikonman44

The idea of using the carriers and sending a folder is probably the best idea and it pretty much handles all the " it all depends"

mentor38 Loc: Houston

Since monitors only display 72dpi regardless of how sharp the picture is, I use my computer's MS Explorer to send pictures via email. Highlight the file, right click, choose "Send To", pick "mail recipient", choose the size picture you want to send, from small to large or even original, then Windows will attach it to an email in my normal program and wait for me to type in the recipient's address. This is the way we send four pictures to our photo club for display to the crowd at our monthly meetings (our club has over 100 members, so we've been asked to limit the file sizes of the ones we submit -- not because of sharpness while being projected, but because of space limitations on the presenter's computer). Otherwise, transferring it via thumb drive is the simplest.

The picture below is an example. It was projected onto a large screen that could be seen easily by the entire group although it was reduced in size to only 800x547 when I sent it.

Nikonman44

quite impressive to say the least ( or rather the most)

Nikonman44

how many fotos could you send using the email and attaching, if you had to send that way??

father christmas Loc: Goodlettsville, Tennessee

Why would anyone need10 to 20 Megs for a wall paper screen? Unless the screen is a whole wall.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Use 1024x768 and a target max file size of 500kb. Our photo club uses that as a guide for our monthly EID competitions which have to be emailed to the regional judges.

Geegee Loc: Peterborough, Ont.

Just talk to your IT guy and he should be able to give you the best advice for the computer system in your office.

SkyPhantom

Hi folkus,
Emailing has its limitations when sending images depending on who you use for your email (Comcast, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL etc. I suggest if you would like to get a really large format picture to yourself at work you can either use a USB Flash drive or put it onto dropbox (if you have one). I think emailing it to yourself isn't necessarily the best option for a large image file, but yes it is an option.

Whuff Loc: Marshalltown, Iowa

I just took about 35 large file photos to work today on a USB thumb drive. It took about 60 seconds to load them onto the drive and maybe 30 seconds to upload them at work. Much easier than email in my opinion.

Walt

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Of course, in reality, the OP is NOT talking about a screen saver - that would be a PROGRAM.... a WALLPAPER, is of course what is being discussed :)

gnawbone Loc: Southern Indiana

That is right - I retired about 8 months ago but the organization I worked for didn't allow much of anything (I worked at a hospital). Dropbox was blocked (not secure enough) and any USB device was blocked on all computers in the organization unless you had one of the IT issued thumb drives. The thumb drives they issued had little keypads on them that required a 4 digit passcode in order to work. And, you guessed it, you only got the thumb drives if you had an IT approved reason to be transferring business related only files from one computer to another. Internet was screwed down very tight, too.

There was so much security stuff running on the computers it would take 7 to 8 minutes for them to boot up, I only restarted it every 10 days or so. It got so bad that I took my MacBook to work with me, used the guest network, and did most of my work that way. I didn't have the time or patience to deal with all the security stuff. My work computer became an email / calendar machine.