What is the easiest way to send a photo file...

online (smaller than 1 MB) without having to be a member of anything?Maybe simply by email but will a 600KB file be too big?Thanks!

Most photo editing and cataloging software have an e-mail function that automatically downsize the photo before sending without affecting the stored file on your computer. Most also let you choose the file size to "smart send".

I now use ACDSee 9, but have used others with equal ease. I think the iPhoto on the Macs will do this as well as some programs contained with Windows OS.

--mamallama

I have used PM View for years. This is a very nice shareware image manipulating program that you can d/l and try. It will let you resize your large size images to a file size more suitable for E-mailing.

Yes, 600K is large for most transfers unless it is just one picture being sent. Otherwise, scale it to 600x800 for a file size at or generally below 150K--and often something like 30-80K. Large file sizes are a pain to upload and then download at the other end, particularly with a dialup connection and more than one image is attached to the letter.

If you'd like to evaluate PMV, just search on the title and you'll find several sites that you can get it from in moments.

Regardless of the program you use, I recommend doing a Save As using the same file name or a different more descriptive one that also includes "mail" in the title so you know at a glance that this one has been downsized.

I love using Picasa, a free program from google. It will organize all your photos in your hard drive automatically. It also has a very user friendly, easy to learn post processing capability. And select the pictures from your file to email and it will automatically size them to what ever you have selected in the properties, I like 800X600. It also has web album capability, if you get into setting up your own public gallery. I have started one you can check out below. Good luck, and enjoy.
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Dale Marshall
http://picasaweb.google.com/sinbadhd

Thanks for all the answers! I think I didn't express myself right.My goal was to send online a file to somebody.The file was suppose to be not bigger that 1MB(actually I thought it was 600 KB)so I thought that maybe I could send it by email but the idea is not to send the thing so the person can see it.The idea is to send it so the person can save it to her computer full size and then burn it to a CD.

To make the story short,I gave a CD of pictures to an out of town model yesterday and discovered one of those picture still needed some Photoshoping.So,I did the work and to avoid for her to have to come back here ,I wanted to send it to her by Internet.

Was I was knowing and what I actually did(I did ask the question here to see if there was a better,easiest way)is a have a Yahoo/Flickr account that I keep solely to share the proof images of a shoot with the model waiting for her to make her choice.So,I did upload the picture(by the way I discovered that the file was actually 4.3 MB .It was a full size version not a website version of that picture)so I did upload that picture to the briefcase Yahoo account and did give her the ID and the password and she did get the newly,better Photoshop image.Is there any easiest way to do this?Thanks!

Lesl said:

Thanks for all the answers! I think I didn't express myself right.My
goal was to send online a file to somebody.The file was suppose to be
not bigger that 1MB(actually I thought it was 600 KB)so I thought
that maybe I could send it by email but the idea is not to send the
thing so the person can see it.The idea is to send it so the person
can save it to her computer full size and then burn it to a CD.

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You can still send it by e-mail if your e-mail service and hers allow 1 MB file sizes. Some do, some don't. Just resize it to the desired size using some photo processing software and send it as an attachment. The attachment can be extracted as a file from the received e-mail and stored on her computer.

--mamallama

... For this type of thing, I just attach to a Yahoo email and send. Yahoo will let you send up to 10mb. The receiver can then just download the attached file.
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Rgds, Dave.
Have fun - take lotsa pix.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/pixplanet

You're telling me that I can send an email with my Yahoo account and as an attachement I can send a 10 MB files and at the other end,the person will receive that file and download it to her computer and it will still be a 10 MB files?I real wonder...will have to try this.

... But 10mb is the limit they allow for all attachments. I often send files this way.
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Rgds, Dave.
Have fun - take lotsa pix.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/pixplanet

Lesl said:

You're telling me that I can send an email with my Yahoo account and
as an attachement I can send a 10 MB files and at the other end,the
person will receive that file and download it to her computer and it
will still be a 10 MB files?I real wonder...will have to try this.

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But, depending on the e-mail service of the recipient, you may seriously overload it. Better check first. Otherwise the recipient may have to call the service to unjam the file.

--mamallama

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Tom
H9
http://www.photobucket.com/albums/kk126/Tomas_Gonzales/