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October 19, 2006
Image resizing for email
Terry Lane's always-informative Green Guide column today discussed how to resize photos for email. At FastMail.FM we regularly hear from customers who are less than thrilled when a "friend" sends them a 10MB email, completely blocking their dialup Internet account for an hour or so (if this ever happens to you, either use the web interface, or use Thunderbird, both of which let you read the email without downloading attachments).
To avoid such bad manners, Terry's advice is to use a piece of software such as Irfanview. I heartily recommend this excellent software, but as cvincent points out on the forum, it's far from the easiest way to resize images for email - the Resizer Powertoy from Microsoft is a really simple and effective approach.
Easier still, just right-click the image, select 'Send To', and then select 'Email', and you'll see the helpful dialog above, which offers to resize the image for you prior to attaching to your email! This creates an image of around 40-50k, which should be small enough that you won't be placed in the sin bin by the recipient.
Posted by Jeremy at October 19, 2006 10:07 PM
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