Re: What's the quickest and easiest way to e-mail photos through web browsers' webmails?

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Subject	Re: What's the quickest and easiest way to e-mail photos through web browsers' webmails?
Date	2013-08-04 20:18 -0400
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In article <1l74nyb.pgbd1v1awzcf7N%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>, Jamie
Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:

> > > Or simply drag the image from within iPhoto to an open file dialog...
> > 
> > ...or drag to the browser window. no need for an open file dialog.
> 
> Depends on the webmail and browser being used, but yes - some use fancy
> javascript to allow direct drag and drop attachment, which is even
> handier :-) But as a baseline - one can do what I suggested, and it will
> always work.

it works for at least yahoo, gmail, outlook and squirrelmail, which
covers a significant chunk of webmail.

> > > > Exporting does allow you to change the file type, quality (if exported
> > > > as JPEG), and size, as well as changing the file's name.
> > > 
> > > Handy, but generally unnecessary for a quick attachment of a photo,
> > > unless you've been saving extremely high resolution photos.
> > 
> > cameras these days take photos far too big for email. they need to be
> > resized.
> 
> Not the cameras on smartphones and little pocket cameras, IME. 

anything more than a megapixel needs to be resized, and even that is
pushing it. even shitty cameraphones have more than that.

> But if
> you've another camera that takes very high resolution photos, you can
> usually set it to save to a lower resolution on it's memory card,

you can set the camera to lower resolution, but why buy a high res
camera if all you're going to do is shoot it at low resolution? save
yourself some money and get a lower res camera.

> or
> bulk create lower res versions with an app like GrahpicConverter.

or export lower res directly from lightroom. one less step.

> And if
> you want to show off multiple photos in an email, you're really far
> better off linking to it with a service like imgur.com or Dropbox, not
> actually attaching the images :-)

true.

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