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turboguy
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E-Mailing Graphics - 7/14/2002 22:53:52
This is probably a dumb question. Every question is easy if you know the answer.
I have to e-mail some rather large graphics. I have usually used Hotmail and Yahoo for my e-mail and they of course limit attachments to 1.5 meg. The graphics I need to send are larger, sometimes much larger. I really need to do this. I do not have a problem with spending some money to sign up for an e-mail account somewhere or doing whatever I have to. Can someone give me some suggestions on this. Thanks.
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nowlkldy
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RE: E-Mailing Graphics - 7/15/2002 1:12:15
Not a dumb question at all.
What about your ISP and an email program like Outlook/Express or Pegasus or whatever? May take awhile unless you have broadband but I frequently send large files via e-mail.
Another alternative is to scan them and knock down the file size either with your scanning software or a program like PSP, PS, ArcView etc. You can do so without much degradation unless the recipient wants to make decent prints from the files he/she receives.
Dave
PS If you don' t have any photo editing software and want to go that route there are a lot of really good freebies out there. Re-post and I or someone will give you some links.
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turboguy
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RE: E-Mailing Graphics - 7/15/2002 16:03:33
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the help. I guess I will see what I can do through my isp. I considered that possibility, but was trying to avoid it just because they don' t have much support and their e-mail set up doesn' t work right now, but I will play with that.
Reducing my file size is not an option, but that was a great suggestion. I have photoshop, fireworks and corel' s photo paint and of course image composer, but this is for print and magazines and they only want 300 dpi tiff with no compression.
Thanks for the help Dave. If you or anyone else has any thoughts on this let me know.
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EWD
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RE: E-Mailing Graphics - 7/15/2002 16:35:19
If you have web space, can you FTP them and give the recipient access? Or perhaps load them on your webserver, and give the recipient the url to download. Maybe you could zip them? Just a few random thoughts.
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garyb
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RE: E-Mailing Graphics - 7/15/2002 22:25:25
We work with large files all the time for print work. We generally use winzip which often compresses the file for transmission down by huge factors. (For example, a 3MB graphic is often compressed down to less than 500K with no loss when they are extracted).
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turboguy
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RE: E-Mailing Graphics - 7/17/2002 14:39:21
I just want to thank everyone for the help. Unless I hear otherwise from the magazines, I solved the problem by ziping the file. It cut the size in half and was within what I can send. Thanks again.
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