How can I make a Jpeg file smaller for emailing purposes?
Posted Sunday, December 26, 2010 by admin
I need to send scanned documents to someone thru email and they can only accept attachments upto 12mb but most of my files are 20+mb. I need to make these scans smaller to fit the email but i also need it to be legible n printable for the person receiving it. How can i do this? The files are stored on corel and picasa. HELP!
Try cropping them
But idk if this’ll work.
Sometimes you can update/download a new/better email.
Good Luck
you can lower the dpi, or increase the compression. both will lower quality in different ways and without knowing what the final desired result is, there is no way to know which is a better choice.
If you are looking for a good free image editor to accomplish this, try GIMP.
Instead of sending the pictures, upload them somewhere, and send teh lniks. Let the other side do all the work.
Open your picture in Paint. In the menu bar, go to Image –> Stretch/Skew –> stretch the image to anything less than 100%, like try 75% or 50%. This will decrease the resolution and make the size smaller. Then Save As a different file name. Dont overwrite the original just in case.
Just compress them. If you do not have compression software then download this:
Its entirely free, simple, and lightweight. Just download and follow the setup prompts. Once installed just right click the file and select compress. It will now be smaller and you can attach to your email. However make sure the person you are sending this to has some kind of decompressor so they can decompress it. According to another person who answered compression reduces the quality, but it actually does not. It makes the file smaller, but in the smaller version it is unviewable until it is decompressed. This can be done with the same software above, so make sure the receiver has this software. They just right click the file and select decompress.
This sounds like a lot, but is actually the smartest, easiest way to do this.
There is a service where you can send email up to 100 mb. It is called YouSendIt.com. Create an account and upload the files and email from the site. They send a link to the recipient allowing them access to your files so they can download to their computer.
Right click on the file and choose the program to open it with. Choose Paint.
Click on Image> Attributes.
Reduce the number of pixels for both width and height by around 15% and then File> Save As – choose a new file name.
Compare the file size with the original and you will see it is now much smaller in size.
You can change the dimensions of the image in the same way but choose Stretch/ Skew instead of Attributes.