For the past few years my husband and I have traveled throughout states where our ancestors lived: NJ, NY, VA, NC, SC, TN, Ky, TX, LA, etc. I have taken pictures of old homesteads, churches, etc. At first I used a film camera, then I started using a digital. I use .jpg format and have converted my film camera pictures to that format. Now the problem is that I can only send attachments of about 9MB at a time. I am 85 years old and am still trying to understand the internal combustion engine. Obviously I am not of the electronic generation but I am doing my best. For the purposes of sharing my pictures with family members is there a way I can convert a 3MB .jpg picture into a format that will use less MBs but still have good quality? (Am I stating this so you can understand what I mean?). I would appreciate any help - baby steps, please. Floreda
Hello Tallygators, Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6:16:42 PM, you wrote: T> For the purposes of sharing my pictures with family members is there a way I T> can convert a 3MB .jpg picture into a format that will use less MBs but T> still have good quality? (Am I stating this so you can understand what I T> mean?). Know exactly what you mean and it's a common issue when sending photos by e-mail. There is a trade off between the size of file you can send and the quality of image. It's possible to reduce the file size using a graphics program or special programs for the job such as Pix Resizer, however the smaller the file the worse the quality. You may be able to find a compromise that gives reasonable file size for sending at an acceptable quality but if you wish to send the full file then e-mail isn't the best method. Fortunately there are free services just for this sort of thing so have a look at You Send It - which has a free level that allows up to 100Mb of files to be sent. The procedure is you select the files you want to send and the address you want them to go to then what happens is the files are transmitted to their server and an e-mail sent to the recipient with a link to download them. http://www.yousendit.com/ BTW - I've used this free service and there's no problem with it or security issues to worry about. Does the job and easy as pie to set up / use :-) -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.10'Karmic'