E-mailing pictures

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gonefishing2

When I e-mail pictures they are hardly ever received by
the person I'm sending them to. All they get is an X in a
box. I try to not send all the fwd's along and I would
like to know how to get rid of them before I send the
pictures.I've tried saving the pictures to my documents
and send them by the e-mail in the M. D. section and
people still say they only get the X.
 
Some possible problems.
The file size of the photos you are trying to send are too large. There is a
limit to the size of a file you can attach in an e-mail (usually around 1 or
2 MB depending on your Internet provider. Some will not allow attachment of
any size. This also applies to your recipients.
1. Can you send the photo to yourself? E-mail the photo to yourself, can you
get it? If not, another recipient will not get it either.
2. Try to resize the photo file. You can do this with the instructions
below. Then e-mail a resized photo file to yourself and see if this works.

To decrease the size of the file for e-mail, web publishing etc.



Go to this site and download the free Image Resizer. Exe file in one of your
folder.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Once in your folder, double click on it to install it.

Once installed, you right click on a photo file (or on a group of selected
photo files).

Click on Resize image on the opening menu.

A window will open, select the size you want.

New files will be added in your folder, same name as original file but with
the word (small) added.



The first time you use it, you may not see Resize image on the opening menu
after you right click on the file or if you see it, it may not work. If so,
do the following:

Click on Run, click on Start and type the following in the textbox:

REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL

and press the Enter key.

Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI.



Also, you can download a free batch converter from here to resize pictures
and edit photos:

http://irfanview.com/
 
More info:

OLEXP: Image May Not Appear in Message Sent with Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=171908
OLEXP: Images in E-Mail Messages Are Missing After You Apply Stationery
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=256974
OLEXP: Image May Not Appear in Message Received with Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=246186
Some types of images don't display
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#nopreview

Hal
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