How do I reduce picture file size?

[SC Tom]

Meanwhile, one could've just taken the typo as your review of WLM

For Char Jackson: I enjoyed your subtle & non-judgmental way of pointing
it out.

I like WLM OK, but not near enough to call it "precious" LOL!!

 

[tommy]

I want to reduce the file size for emailing but the built-in "send to" or
email option on the Explorer bar just wants to make the pictures into an
online album on Skydrive (which, strange as it may seem, not everyone has or
wants.)

How do I get the file size reduced so I can save the new file locally &
*attach* to email?

I think I fumbled my way through this once but can't figure it out again.
(This time I'll take notes.)
Thanks.
bj



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[Char Jackson]

Thank you all for your various suggestions.

I also don't want to "revert" to a previous version of WLM -- I have no
doubt that doing so will lead to some even worser problems later on.

You'd sometimes be right about that, but in the case of WLM it's
widely known that the later version is worse than the one before it.
The suggestions to go back to v14 are sound.

 

[KCB]

I want to reduce the file size for emailing but the built-in "send to" or
email option on the Explorer bar just wants to make the pictures into an
online album on Skydrive (which, strange as it may seem, not everyone has
or wants.)

How do I get the file size reduced so I can save the new file locally &
*attach* to email?

I think I fumbled my way through this once but can't figure it out again.
(This time I'll take notes.)
Thanks.
bj

A forum post here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/121699-how-disable-skydrive-photo-album-wlm-2011-a.html

suggests this:
When selecting the images to send, include a non-image file. This could just
be a dummy.txt file that should be in the same folder.

To create that non image file to the photo folder just Right click the
window that has the photos and then New--> Text Document

Select your photos including the non-image file RIght click again pick Send
to--> Mail recipient you'll still get the option to resize the images, but
they'll end up attached rather than a photo mail. You can then Right click
the dummy.txt file and REMOVE it from the message before sending.

 

[bj]

Thank you so much -- that's just the type of solution I was looking for.
I tried it out & it worked just fine.
I'll probably end up mailing an empty txt file to somebody sometime
but I'm not going to worry about that -- I don't often mail photos anyway.
bj

"KCB" wrote in message

I want to reduce the file size for emailing but the built-in "send to" or
email option on the Explorer bar just wants to make the pictures into an
online album on Skydrive (which, strange as it may seem, not everyone has
or wants.)

How do I get the file size reduced so I can save the new file locally &
*attach* to email?

I think I fumbled my way through this once but can't figure it out again.
(This time I'll take notes.)
Thanks.
bj

A forum post here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/121699-how-disable-skydrive-photo-album-wlm-2011-a.html

suggests this:
When selecting the images to send, include a non-image file. This could just
be a dummy.txt file that should be in the same folder.

To create that non image file to the photo folder just Right click the
window that has the photos and then New--> Text Document

Select your photos including the non-image file RIght click again pick Send
to--> Mail recipient you'll still get the option to resize the images, but
they'll end up attached rather than a photo mail. You can then Right click
the dummy.txt file and REMOVE it from the message before sending.

 

[KCB]

Thank you so much -- that's just the type of solution I was looking for.
I tried it out & it worked just fine.
I'll probably end up mailing an empty txt file to somebody sometime
but I'm not going to worry about that -- I don't often mail photos anyway.
bj

I'm glad it worked out for you. It's a shame that MS put out a program that
needs so many work-arounds, though.

 

[bj]

"KCB" wrote in message

Thank you so much -- that's just the type of solution I was looking for.
I tried it out & it worked just fine.
I'll probably end up mailing an empty txt file to somebody sometime
but I'm not going to worry about that -- I don't often mail photos anyway.
bj

I'm glad it worked out for you. It's a shame that MS put out a program that
needs so many work-arounds, though.
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Yeah, but doing a few work-arounds on something I already know how to do
most things with (most things that I normally do, anyway) beats learning
*all new* stuff from scratch, no matter how "easy" people say those other
programs are -- the people who've been using them for years & have their
fingers on automatic pilot to do everything in them.
bj

 

[thanatoid]

"KCB" wrote in message


I'm glad it worked out for you. It's a shame that MS put
out a program that needs so many work-arounds, though.
===========================================

Yeah, but doing a few work-arounds on something I already
know how to do most things with (most things that I
normally do, anyway) beats learning *all new* stuff from
scratch, no matter how "easy" people say those other
programs are -- the people who've been using them for years
& have their fingers on automatic pilot to do everything in
them. bj

Last I looked, there were 10 or 100, many free, batch image
resizing programs for Windows, some for "everything", some
designed specifically for dealing with digital camera images.

(It appears that once you get a 12 or 14MP camera, you somehow
start believing that only 12 or 14MP will give you acceptable
image quality, and if it's a 4 or 10 MB attachment, so be it.
When digital cameras first entered the mass market, 2 MP was
considered "professional quality". I just can't wait until
everybody has a 25MP camera and every image of their kid or pet
they send to their friends IS 25MP. [There already is a 50MP
Hasselblad but mercifully, not accessible to most people due to
its price.])

Anyway... not image editing, not a 500MB pro image-processing
program, just a simple "choose folder (AKA directory), choose
target image size, press 'convert/resize' button" utilities.
What's so hard about using one of those? Not to mention that in
spite of the internet having taken over most of what used to be
considered normal life, exercising your brain and learning
things remain worthwhile activities.

The "method" described above just proves that those idiots at MS
have gone totally off their heads. I could hardly believe what I
was reading.