7 Avoid large image formats
While not exactly the norm, a growing number of digital
cameras, and even some smartphones, save images in
uncompressed formats such as RAW and TIFF. Uncompressed file
sizes can be colossal, and it’s likely you won’t be able to email
even a single photo. Your best bet is to re-save photos in JPEG
format using your favourite image editor.
8 Create an online photo gallery
We’ve already mentioned that you could use cloud storage
to share your photos with others, and a similar option is to create
an online photo gallery. The links of Google Photos, Flickr, 500px
and Photobucket give you the ability to notonlystore your
images online, but also create attractive, sharablealbums – all
you need to do is to email the link to people.Q5
Store photos in the cloud
If you use OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, or some other
cloud storage service, this gives you another option. You can
simply create a folder containing a number of photographs, and
email a link to friends and family so they can view the images
online. You will need to check the privacy and sharing settings for
you chosen cloud service to make sure others can access files.
3 Reduce image quality
If you are using an image editor for resizing, you can opt to
save your images in a compressed format such as JPEG. You will
be given the chance to choose the quality at which the image
should be saved, and here you can choose a balance between file
size and appearance. Dropping quality to 80 percent makes a
huge difference to size, but little visible difference to quality.
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Share photos via social media
Facebook and other social networking sites are not just a
great way to keep in touch with people, they are ideal platforms
for sharing photos. You can create an album on Facebook and
share it with your online friends. If you want to share an album
with people who are not on Facebook, you will have to make the
album public and then email them a link.4 Compress your file attachments
Another great way to keep within email attachment limits is
to compress files before you attach them. You don’t need any
extra software to do this, as Windows has its own built-in
compression feature. In File Explorer, select the files you want to
send, right click them and select Send to > Compressed (zipped)
folder. A zip file will be created that you can then attach and send.Explore
Tips for emailing photos
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