At 10:29 AM 5/22/00 -0500, you wrote: >This may not be a question to put to this group but I thought someone with >more knowledge >could explain it very simply. I have received a picture by email. It is >huge 1422 KB. I >takes forever to download but then the picture is impossible to see because >of the size. >Can someone tell me how to reduce the size so it can be seen? Welcome to the world of graphics. does the picture have a name, and part of the name past the (*.xxx) show up? If so once the type of file is known, it is easy to find some form of viewer to look at the picture. If it is *.gif or *.jpg, go to the attachments folder and double click on the file name. If you are using a fully enabled copy or Netscape or IE, they should show the picture to you within the browser. If it is something else, try to view it by double clicking on the name. If you are lucky it will show up in MS paintshop or other program you may have but do not even know is on your machine. If you have more trouble, contact me at [email protected], and I will try to help you. I adopted daughter, never names pix correctly and still sends them to me, so I am getting to be fairly good at finding ways to view them. Jack

For the benefit of those who may have joined us recently, IF you need a really good graphics program, I recommend Paint Shop Pro (PSP)! It will do things that the $500 and $1000 programs do, but only costs $99 for original registration. After that, when major upgrades come out, the cost is only $39.95. "Major" meaning when they upgrade from, for example, 6.x to 7.x. Intermediate upgrades are always free, that is, from 6.1 to 6.2. Yes it's "pricey" to start with, but if you ever need to work with graphics files, e.g., .jpg, .gif, .bmp, etc., you won't find a better "expert" program on the market. If you pay for it (as opposed to using the shareware version), you also get the "GIF Animator" program. That's a program that allows you to view animated .gif files, and to create them. When you visit a web page and see small graphics that are "animated", they are "animated .gif files". BTW, if anyone needs such animated files, I have literally thousands and would be more than happy to share them. SgtGeorge At 09:19 PM 05/22/2000, Jack Henderson wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* At 10:29 AM 5/22/00 -0500, you wrote: This may not be a question to put to this group but I thought someone with more knowledge could explain it very simply. I have received a picture by email. It is huge 1422 KB. I takes forever to download but then the picture is impossible to see because of the size. Can someone tell me how to reduce the size so it can be seen? Welcome to the world of graphics. does the picture have a name, and part of the name past the (*.xxx) show up? If so once the type of file is known, it is easy to find some form of viewer to look at the picture. If it is *.gif or *.jpg, go to the attachments folder and double click on the file name. If you are using a fully enabled copy or Netscape or IE, they should show the picture to you within the browser. If it is something else, try to view it by double clicking on the name. If you are lucky it will show up in MS paintshop or other program you may have but do not even know is on your machine. If you have more trouble, contact me at [email protected], and I will try to help you. I adopted daughter, never names pix correctly and still sends them to me, so I am getting to be fairly good at finding ways to view them. Jack **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**************