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Digital Photo Processing - Email Small Photos Please

SUMMARY: Do your friends a favor and only trade small digital photo files.

Planning on e-mailing your friends and family those pictures from your latest vacation, making them green with envy on how you got to spend another day on the beach? <grin>. If so, please be courteous. Let your friends and family know before you plan on flooding their inbox with pictures, just in case they don't want to spend lots of time downloading your e-mail.

Remember that many people are still on dial-up accounts. If you can, use your photo editing software (some should have come with your digital camera) and downsize your images before emailing. That 2 MB file of you standing on the fishing pier with your large catch may look great on your screen, and its size and detail may guarantee an incredible print, but it can cause a big headache when a friend or family member has to wait downloading it while reading their e-mail.

Of course, if your friends or family have high-speed accounts, you may be able to send them large files without worry. However, for politeness, I still tend to send smaller snapshot files at first, allowing others to let me know if they want larger versions of particular photos.