I am too lazy to tell you everything so I will send you the URL of a site that should answer most of your questions. http://www.scantips.com/ Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm ======================================= Kerrie wrote: > Hello Listers > > Could SKS please tell me what dpi I should scan b&w photos and colour photos at? Also what should I save them as? > > I used to scan photos at 300 dps and save them as jpegs but was told I shouldn't save them as jpegs but as tif's. Then I started scanning my photos at 600dpi and saved them as tif's, however when I want to send the tif's to a friend I find the files are too big to go through my server. > > Can I save a photo as a tif and then resave it as a jpeg? Once it's saved as a 600dpi tif file can I then reduce the dpi to say 300 and save it as a jpeg? > > Hope someone can help me. > > Happy Easter to all > > Kerrie

I would appreciate some helpful advice on this:- I have quite a large number of genealogy-related e-mail messages on my desk-top computer which I would like to transfer to my lap-top. I want significantly to cut down on the number of messages I retain and, for various reasons, it is desirable to do the culling on the laptop. I do not NOT need to transfer messages back. I know of a number of laborious ways of transferring message-by-message but I would rather not resort to that. Both computers run Windows XP Home. I do not send or receive mail on the laptop. I have a "thumb drive" gadget by which I normally transfer data between the computers and my most used common word processor is WordPad. The email on the desk-top is Outlook Express 6. In previous versions of Windows/Outlook Express configurations I was able, through Windows Explorer, to get to the mail folders and copy them to view in a word processor program to save or discard as I wished. I have not been able to do this on the present set-up. The Folder Export facility in OE seems to have only unsuitable (to me) destinations. Bob Kane