Friday, May 2, 2008

Emailing Photos with Picasa

Have you ever opened a photo attached to an email and found yourself staring at a person’s eyeball taking up the entire screen? That’s what happens if the person sending the photo doesn’t know about resizing it first. That is, if you receive the photo at all! It may be so big that your email inbox simply rejects it.

Here’s a photo of my motorhome as you would see it if I emailed it to you full-size. This is how it would appear in many programs - then you would need to scroll around to see the entire photo. This photo would be taking up a lot of space in your inbox as well - 2.7 megabytes to be exact. And, if you have a mailbox that is limited to 10 megabytes, it would fill up real quick, and any further mail would be rejected.

sample of un-resized photo

There lots of ways to send photos with email and resize them first. Picasa is my favorite. You simply select the photo (or photos) you want to send, click the email button, and Picasa does all the rest. Watch the quick video below to see how.

 

Chris Guld
www.GeeksOnTour.com

5 comments:

  1. So, how DO I e mail Picasa photos using Mozilla Thunderbird????

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  2. If Thunderbird is installed as the default email program on you computer, it should show up when you click on Picasa's email button.

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  3. I cannot send photos from Picasa. I would like them to be sent throught Thunderbird. Please reply

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  4. If thunderbird is your default email program on your computer, then it should show up as an option when you use the Email button. Here's Picasa's instructions regarding your default email: http://support.google.com/picasa/answer/11064

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