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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Jonathan Wienke on August 03, 2005, 08:13:21 pm

Title: sending images by email
Post by: Jonathan Wienke on August 03, 2005, 08:13:21 pm
Best quality would be TIFF or some other uncompressed format, but that will usually result in the mail being bounced by one of the servers due to being too large. So the best practical option is JPEG, with quality setting between 8 and 10 to keep compression artifacts to a minimum.
Title: sending images by email
Post by: Gordon Buck on August 04, 2005, 10:55:18 am
I'd like to be proven wrong on this but it seems that Hotmail modifies image attachments.  If you *send* an image from Hotmail then be sure to attach it as a "file" and not as a "picture" because Hotmail reduces picture sizes and adds compression.  Also, it seems that a jpg image is *received* in a Hotmail account as a bitmap.  

The above appears to be true for both the free and subscription Hotmail accounts.  If not, someone please tell me how to how to avoid this problem!
Title: sending images by email
Post by: jani on August 04, 2005, 03:04:09 pm
Shuck Hotmail in the garbage bin and get a sensible webmail service, without all those graphical ads and stuff.

So for those registered LL forum members:

I have spare gmail invites enough for the foreseeable future, send me a PM with your current email address, and I'll invite you.
Title: sending images by email
Post by: grosvenor on August 03, 2005, 07:04:10 pm
What is the best way to send images by email for high quality?
Title: sending images by email
Post by: grosvenor on August 03, 2005, 09:25:52 pm
Thanks
Title: sending images by email
Post by: Paul Sumi on August 04, 2005, 11:58:39 am
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The above appears to be true for both the free and subscription Hotmail accounts.  If not, someone please tell me how to how to avoid this problem!
Perhaps if you put the JPG(s) in a ZIP file?  Not sure, but the images shouldn't be compressed.