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Compress your @*#(ing pictures before emailing them.

Doppel

Doppel

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Anybody else got friends or relatives who have never learned how to shrink a picture? Do I need a 4.5 MB image of your baby? No, a couple hundred K is just fine. If this is still happening in 2011 I fear it will never change. The problem of course gets worse for those who fancy themselves a photographer and pick up a 12 megapixel DSLR camera to take pics around the house with.
 
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DayLaPaul said:
Wait, does compressing and resizing an image mean the same thing to you?
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I think it does and that scares me. It's also sort of ironic and funny the OP is upset at people for being technically unsavvy when he doesn't know the difference.
 
Yeah, this will pretty much NEVER happen with the vast majority of people until e-mail does it automatically. Which it should; that'd be pretty badass. "You're attempting to attach a 4.5MB .bmp image; automatically converting to 800x600 .jpg." But yeah, I can barely resize pictures myself, and I'm the most tech-savvy person in my family. Asking my mother to do it? She might as well build a functional jet-propulsion system using only household items.
 
sygyzy said:
I think it does and that scares me. It's also sort of ironic and funny the OP is upset at people for being technically unsavvy when he doesn't know the difference.
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Use your brain.
Yeah, this will pretty much NEVER happen with the vast majority of people until e-mail does it automatically. Which it should; that'd be pretty badass. "You're attempting to attach a 4.5MB .bmp image; automatically converting to 800x600 .jpg." But yeah, I can barely resize pictures myself, and I'm the most tech-savvy person in my family. Asking my mother to do it? She might as well build a functional jet-propulsion system using only household items.
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Gmail handles this better than most in that it at least allows these gargantuan images to size down to fit, like on the forums (OCGuy's image), but still gotta wait for the huge file to download.
 
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DayLaPaul said:
Wait, does compressing and resizing an image mean the same thing to you?
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For a crap emailed picture of someone else it does mean about the same thing. In both cases:
1) You see the image.
2) The image is a small file.
3) The file is a fast download.
4) You don't need quality since you won't print pictures of other people by other people.

The four key characteristics all match with compression or resizing. So, for the vast majority of cases, yes they mean the same thing. Are they exactly the same? Of course not. But the difference is meaningless in this situation.

I personally GIMP them to a smaller pixel count and then pick the compression level that gives a decent quality with a small size. So I do both. At work I have a 10 MB limit on ALL emails combined. Above 10 MB, any email is delayed until I delete or archive the existing emails. Two photos of large size and I can't do anything until I delete the offending email. FIOS doesn't help at all in that situation.
 
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And here I was thinking the OP was getting 18+megapixel raw files... and all he is getting is 4.5mb jpgs. Cry more.
 
I email myself files all the time, pics included. sometimes its because i want to save the image for use at work or in a project. if gmail or other providers started auto compressing or resizing id be pissed.

also, if i share pics of my kids i upload to an album and give them a link instead. much easier.
 
Pisses me off when people do that, and when they use BMP. WTF, uncompressed JPG is the same quality as a BMP and will be 10x smaller, at least use that!

The latest thing at work is people sending 2GB print jobs. WTF These are laser printers made for text, not freaking plotters, they can't handle that DPI, there is NO POINT in sending a document that big!
 
M0oG0oGaiPan said:
The worst is when they hit print screen and paste it in outlook. Those files are huge.
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I'm kinda guilty of that, just because it's faster for screenshots, but I only do it internally so it's not like it slows things down much. If I'm doing stuff at home then it's different, I usually try to stay under 1MB in an email. Lot of people don't realize it but email is not a file transfer protocol. Just because your email server has a certain limit does not mean the receiving one has that same limit.
 
Doppel said:
Anybody else got friends or relatives who have never learned how to shrink a picture? Do I need a 4.5 MB image of your baby? No, a couple hundred K is just fine. If this is still happening in 2011 I fear it will never change. The problem of course gets worse for those who fancy themselves a photographer and pick up a 12 megapixel DSLR camera to take pics around the house with.
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Their pictures are most likely compressed (Jpg IS compressed). Most cameras to spit out raw bitmaps.

That being said. Oh nosss, a 12MB photo! That is like 0.0012% of a Terabyte hard drive! And it takes a whole 8 seconds to download from your 12Mb/s internet connection!
 
M0oG0oGaiPan said:
The worst is when they hit print screen and paste it in outlook. Those files are huge.
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Nah, the worst is when they take a screen shot of something. Put that screen shot in powerpoint, and then email you the powerpoint file... It is like 7 layers of WTF.
 
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