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

[HAL9000]

Get a faster internet connection.

 

[Red Squirrel]

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.

LOL I don't understand why people do this. I've seen that many times too. They are actually making more work for themselves by doing that.

 

[lord_emperor]

I send images in bitmap format to ensure there is no quality loss.

 

[FelixDeCat]

 

[Locut0s]

Umm... get broad band? Most people have it by now and don't think too much about image size, unless it's something really crazy like 10mb or something.

 

[Locut0s]

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.

Umm people do this!?

 

[Locut0s]

lol i tried copy and pasting in a 75mb jpeg into outlook a few weeks ago, it actually almost worked, until i hit send it and crashed the mail server

Why?

 

[Anubis]

Why?

to prove a point

after then 10th time some idiot said "just email me the damn picture" even after i told him many times it wont work i decided to say FUCK IT and do it anyway

he didn't want to mount the damn share drive and navigate to the folder. He originally wanted the raw image and didn't understand why i couldn't email him a 900 mb TIFF file. he was convinced that since he had enough HDD space it would be fine

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Most people do this because it's easy, embeds as a bmp or wmf and you don't have to open the attachment.

But we're limited to 100MB per user lol which sucks. So if I'm not careful to archive everything, I'll get the automated quota message.

We're supposed to archive everything for like 3 years too.

 

[Anubis]

 

[Locut0s]

to prove a point

after then 10th time some idiot said "just email me the damn picture" even after i told him many times it wont work i decided to say FUCK IT and do it anyway

he didn't want to mount the damn share drive and navigate to the folder. He originally wanted the raw image and didn't understand why i couldn't email him a 900 mb TIFF file. he was convinced that since he had enough HDD space it would be fine

Damn, in that case I'm sorry you couldn't send it.

 

[Locut0s]

Galaxy pic snipped

Cool thanks for that. I think that'll be my next wallpaper.

 

[MotionMan]

I hate when people zip jpegs. What's the point in compressing them when it barely changes their file size.

Many years ago, AOL did not handle sending jpgs properly and a workaround was to send them as zips.

MotionMan

 

[Jeff7]

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.

Or take an image off a digital camera, put it in a PDF all horrifically recompressed and downsampled, then send that.


Irfanview: Good stuff. (Except for its sneaky attempts to install Google programs.)
Resize, and resave with all kinds of options. Plus it has a plugin for JPEGs, so you can specify the (approximate) filesize you want, and it'll adjust the quality accordingly.

 

[Anubis]

Cool thanks for that. I think that'll be my next wallpaper.

thre are more

http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/Mars.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/The Milky Way.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/The Solar System 1981.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/World Satellite Map.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/WorldPhysicalMap.jpg

 

[Anubis]

Or take an image off a digital camera, put it in a PDF all horrifically recompressed and downsampled, then send that.


Irfanview: Good stuff. (Except for its sneaky attempts to install Google programs.)
Resize, and resave with all kinds of options. Plus it has a plugin for JPEGs, so you can specify the (approximate) filesize you want, and it'll adjust the quality accordingly.

paint.net is easier for most people to use in my experience also free
http://www.getpaint.net/

 

[Locut0s]

Or take an image off a digital camera, put it in a PDF all horrifically recompressed and downsampled, then send that.


Irfanview: Good stuff. (Except for its sneaky attempts to install Google programs.)
Resize, and resave with all kinds of options. Plus it has a plugin for JPEGs, so you can specify the (approximate) filesize you want, and it'll adjust the quality accordingly.

Irfanview is nice but I've come to really love Xnview. Fantastic image viewer/manipulator/batch processor.

 

[Locut0s]

thre are more

http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/Mars.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/The Milky Way.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/The Solar System 1981.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/World Satellite Map.jpg
http://www.rootminus1.com/admin/Rand/WorldPhysicalMap.jpg

Many thanks!

 

[BladeVenom]

Or take an image off a digital camera, put it in a PDF all horrifically recompressed and downsampled, then send that.

I've seen that a few times. Definitely a facepalm moment.

 

[0roo0roo]

I like full resolution, anyways only upload is low speed these days, a few mb pictures isn't ' going to slow down your connection...

 

[DrPizza]

How about when someone figures out how to do something at work & decides to show *EVERYONE* the 10 steps to do it by taking 10 print screens, grabs the bmps, and assembles them in one email prior to sending it to: ALL

 

[Leros]

I had a math professor who didn't really use computers much. He used a fax machine to transfer documents between home and school. He would fax documents home at the end of the day, and then fax them back to school at the end of the night. Some of our homeworks had been faxed back and forth 10+ times and were barely legible. I'm not sure why he didn't just take the original copies home with him.

 

[alfa147x]

Lol 12mp dslr

 

[Leros]

Nobody link to those giant 1GB + NASA photos.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I had a math professor who didn't really use computers much. He used a fax machine to transfer documents between home and school. He would fax documents home at the end of the day, and then fax them back to school at the end of the night. Some of our homeworks had been faxed back and forth 10+ times and were barely legible. I'm not sure why he didn't just take the original copies home with him.

lol I find it funny how some people prefer fax. I find fax machines are actually harder to use than computers lol. Not to mention you have to actually get up.