Help sending pictures

[John Delacour]

At 21:11 -0500 11/9/08, Will Truitt wrote:

>Hi Terry:
>  Mine are your size and smaller, but for whatever reason Outlook is 
>making the whole thing larger than it should be, and it’s too big.

When you send a file by email it is not sent just as it is but has to 
be encoded  using an 8 to 7-bit encoding algorithm, now usually MIME 
base64 but occasionally UUencode or BinHex.  This increases the 
number of bytes sent by about 50%.  The recipient's mailer then 
decodes the file and discards the encoded version.  All this is done 
automatically by the mail programmes.

I'm afraid I can't suggest any Windows application to reduce the size 
of files because I work mainly on the Mac and use an old version of 
Photoshop to prepare files for the Internet; but there is so much 
free stuff for Windows that I'm sure someone can suggest a freeware 
app.  You can also look here:

<http://www.download.com/Digital-Photography/?tag=rb_content;contentNav>

   I don't rely on the camera to do any special sizing but do it all 
on the computer working from the original high-definition files.

JD