Terry Adams wrote:

In Outlook Express it is even easier to create your

message then choose

"Insert" - Picture (rather than file attachment).  Once you have

inserted

your picture it is quite easy to "grab" it with handles

and shrink the

size

to whatever looks good.

IMHO it is better to resizse the picture based on pixel count

rather than

dpi- 640 across the
top provides more than enough detail,(about the maximum your monitor
will display) and in jpeg is reasonable size. In most cases

even smaller is

still
good enough - Vance

Vance is correct, Terry...resizing the picture inside the message in Outlook
or Outlook Express doesn't change the physical size of the file...just the
way it looks.

Our objective here is twofold..to try to make the IMAGE small enough to see
entirely on the screen without scrolling, and yet not so small as to not
lose any detail, AND to make the file size small enough so everyone can
receive it and it won't take up as much of Paul's (or your) bandwidth and
drive space.

The method you suggested of resizing the image within the message (you have
to have the message format set to HTML or rich text to do this, BTW...it
won't work if the message is set to plain text) still retains, and sends,
the entire file...it just displays it as a smaller image.  That method
doesn't change the amount of hard drive space or bandwidth required, which
is the major reason for shrinking the file.

Reducing the DPI (resolution, pixel count, etc) to 96 per inch or less,  and
then shrinking the actual size to about 4 inches does everything that is
needed and produces a pixel count horizontally of less than 640.

Harley

Don't forget compressing the color information. That is Linux/Unix xv's main weapon
against large file sizes. The color renderings you see on here file size's have been 
reduced to less than half the size they were when Rhino rendered them. They are
no smaller in terms of pixel count. Apparently there are bmp to jpg converters
and then there are bmp to jpg converters. bmp's are of course the raw uncompressed
bit map with 24 bit or more color info.

Paul Lamar

 
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