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Shrinking Pictures to Send in Email

Keep the pictures you send in email small enough for the recipient to see them without scrolling! Follow these tips from a recent NY Times article:

In Windows XP, click to select the photos you want to send from My Pictures or another location on your computer. After you have selected the pictures, click in the "E-mail selected items" option in the task pane. You can also right-click with the mouse and select "Send to Mail Recipient" from the pop-up menu.

In the resulting box, click the button next to "Make all my pictures smaller" and then on the link for "Show more options" to see a selection of resolutions to use for the picture attachments. Choose one and click O.K. Google's Picasa photo- management program for Windows and Linux (free to download at http://picasa.google.com) can also shrink photo attachments.

Mac OS X users have an option in the iPhoto program to reduce image sizes for e-mail. After you select pictures from your iPhoto library that you want to share, click the e-mail icon at the bottom of the window; a box will pop up asking if you'd like to shrink the image for e-mailing.