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

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Cogman said:
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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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.
 
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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 said:
Why?
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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
 
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 said:
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
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Damn, in that case I'm sorry you couldn't send it. 😀
 
Cogman said:
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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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.
 
Jeff7 said:
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.
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paint.net is easier for most people to use in my experience also free
http://www.getpaint.net/
 
Jeff7 said:
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.
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Irfanview is nice but I've come to really love Xnview. Fantastic image viewer/manipulator/batch processor.
 
I like full resolution, anyways only upload is low speed these days, a few mb pictures isn't ' going to slow down your connection...
 
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
 
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.
 
Leros said:
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.
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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. 😛
 
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