Emailing and resizing photographs from My Pictures

To send more pictures you can send the pictures as a smaller file size – not so good for printing but good enough for viewing on screen.

Here’s how to do it:

I am assuming when you transfer your pictures from your camera to your computer it saves them in the My Pictures section of My Documents.

1. Click on “START”
2. Click on “My Pictures”, this will open a new window on your desktop, displaying all your pictures.It should include folders where you have saved your photographs.
3. Double click the folder with the pictures you want to email, this will open the folder and display the pictures.
4. To send one picture select the picture, by onto it clicking once, then click on the “E-Mail this file” link from the left hand side of the screen, under File and folder tasks.(To send multiple photographs in the same email, click on the first photo to select it, then hold down the CTRL key (Bottom left of the keyboard) and then click on another picture. Keep the CTRL key pressed until you have finished selecting all the photographs you want to send. To deselect a picture keep the CTRL key down and click on the picture again. With all the photos selected click on the “E-Mail the selected items” link from the left hand side of the screen, under File and folder tasks)
5. Send Pictures via E-Mail will be displayed, Make all my pictures smaller should be selected.
6. Click on “Show more options”
7. Select “Medium (fits in a 800 by 600 window)” for the Make my pictures this size: (This should be large enough to get the detail of the photograph, but small enough to be quicker at emailing.
8. Click “Ok”
9. This will open a new email message, with all the photos resized and attached to the email.All that needs to be done is either type in the email address of who you want to send it to, or click the “To” button to select email addresses from your address book. (You can add multiple email address into the To section of the email address, this means the email will be sent to multiple people but only send from your computer once. If you are typing in the email addresses manually include a ; (semicolon) between the email addresses)
10. Click the "Send" button