Windows Tip: Emailing Photos

I'm one of those friends/sons/fathers/uncles/brothers-in-law whom many come to for information and advice on how to accomplish something on the computer, and that was certainly a factor in deciding to do this website. As a Windows user, I'm of course aware that there are lots of people who use other operating systems, but also that the vast majority of home computer users use Windows.

So, from time to time, I'm going to make a 'quick tip' kind of Guide to respond to the kinds of things I'm asked about. Sometimes it will just be some very cool thing I've run across that I think some of my friends and family -- and you, if you haven't yet qualified -- would want to know.

This week I zeroed in on the problem of emailing photos. This could also be thought of us part of the broader campaign to Save Our Bandwidth (S.O.B.), because so much of the internet's capacity is currently consumed by people mailing photos that have larger file sizes than they need to.

Note that the method I offer here requires no graphics programs or image processors that you have to buy or download, and that the resulting files, in most cases, are still very high quality, and a fraction of the original size. It takes three minutes to watch. Click here to watch it...