Emailing Digital Photos

After snapping your way through weddings, parties, trips, vacations and any other special occasions, the next thing that you will do is share your experience. Every photo enthusiast is faced with the dilemma on how to actually share their photos to their peers and family. While there are a number of web photo-sharing websites and communities on the internet, accessing the files in those websites is sometimes time-consuming. One of the easiest and most personal ways of sharing your experiences is by sending the pictures through email.

Emailing digital photos is often the quickest way to share your photos. The problem is the size of the images can be pretty big.

Let’s say you got a number of beautiful digital photos in your computer and you are thinking of the fastest and most economical way of sending or sharing them to your friends and families. Instead of printing them or burning them to your CD, you chose to email them to everyone.

Of course you have a few options:

• Ask your receiving friend if her mail system can handle large images and if you have permission to send her. However, to make your photo emailing experience a success, consider informing the recipient first before bombarding them with a 10MB email. This should give them enough time to accommodate the image files that you are wiring through. Hence, emails containing digital photos are better received with permission to do first.
   

• Send one photo at a time.
   

• Reduce the file size of the images. Emailing digital photos presents the easiest way of sharing photos. However, email has some limitations when it comes to sending image files. For one thing, email has a notorious problem when it comes to handling large image files. That is why you will sometimes need to make some changes to the size and format of your digital photos. To make them viewable on the recipient’s screen, you may need to alter your original photos.
  
  Select the JPEG/JPG digital photo file want to work with and send. Make a copy of the original photo and work with THAT file. Open the file in your digital photo software of choice.  I find that 480 by 360 or 640 by 480 work well in most cases - use your best judgment.
  
  Take note of the maximum amount of files that an email can carry so you can easily make scale copies of your photos to the more appropriate size. Make use of your Windows XP cataloging program to be relieved of the necessary scaling and resizing tasks. When you are using Windows XP, it is advised to mail photos directly from the My Pictures folder. This should make all the necessary adjustments to photo viewing easier and more convenient, even with slower dial-up internet connection.
   

• Use a web photo sharing service and simply send links to the photos. You can use the image formatting and finishing tools that web photo sharing and hosting sites offer for free. Most of these sites can automatically downsize image files and even optimize the quality of your photos fast. Forget complex photo software, sending your digital image files through email is simple, easy and so convenient.

Perhaps the most exciting thing about emailing your digital photos is that it can be done for free. It delivers messages and loads of photos FAST. There are only few great things in this world that are offered for free, emails are one of them. Taking advantage of this free and quick solution to connecting with everyone that matters is fun.