Hi everyone,

I hope this is not too stupid! I want to compress the photos I send with
my emails. I have dial-up and it takes so long. Is there a program I can
download or buy to do this.

Thanks
SAS

Try the free Irfanview at www.Irfanview.com

"SAS" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Hi everyone,
|
| I hope this is not too stupid! I want to compress the photos I send with
| my emails. I have dial-up and it takes so long. Is there a program I can
| download or buy to do this.
|
| Thanks
| SAS
|

SAS discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

An excellent, free image processor is IrfanView. FInd it at
http://www.irfanview.com/

SAS wrote:

It's not stupid...

You don't mention the format of your pictures. If they are not already,
convert them to JPG or PNG. That will shrink the file size
significantly...depending on what the original format was (BMP or TIF
are usually very large files). Or you could reduce the resolution or
size of the picture and then convert. You would need a program like
Paint Shop Pro or PhotoShop Elements (there are others as well). I know
there are stand alone utilities that will just convert image formats but
no names come to mind as I don't use them (Google is your friend).

"SAS" wrote in message
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You don't mention WHICH version of Windows you are using. In Windows
XP, the Paint program got updated to let you save in .jpeg format. This
is a compressed image format which means you lose detail. Usually the
detail lost isn't significant but if the image is already degraded then
converting to .jpeg will make it look worse. Paint will let you choose
the compression ration (i.e., how much detail gets dropped out) as will
many other image programs. This type of "compression" is called "lossy
compression" because you will lose detail.