Emailing photos from Canon Rebel XT

[ChunkyNicksChunkyMom]

I tried to do this for the first time yesterday and somehow the photo I managed to email turned out HUGE! Can anyone please tell me how to correctly and easily email a photo using hotmail and the software that comes with the Rebel. I am not very computer literate so easy is good!
Would be so greatful, thank you! (Can not find explanation for this in the instructions).

Susan

#1 Nick 11-18-04

[BillK]

I have a Canon Powershot S50 - it's photos are 5mp and 1600 x 1200 resolution (so they're BIG too). Your best bet for emailing photos from your Rebel XT is to either - (1) switch the resolution and quality in the camera itself to something smaller (which probably isn't a great idea since you obviously have such a nice camera for nice pictures!) - or - (2) get a program to resize the images to something more manageable.

There are many programs that will allow you to change the size of the photos while still keeping most of the original quality (anytime you modify a .jpg image there will be some degradation of quality).

Check out:

Paint Shop Pro: ( http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Products/Display&pfid=1047024307383 )
ACDSee (my favorite http://www.acdsystems.com/nr/lp/na/acdsee/acdsee.asp?CMP=KAC%2Dgoogleawacdsee&CRA=USA_A )
The GIMP (good but kinda complicated - but free! http://www.gimp.org/ ).
Infranview (free - and also supposedly very popular but I honestly don't know a lot about it - may be worth a look though http://www.irfanview.com/ )

There are also a few others but I can't think of any right now - if I do I'll edit this post.

Heck - the software that came with the Canon camera may even allow you to resize - but I'm at work so I can't look at mine to verify it - and since I've always used ACDSee - I never really bothered.

EDIT: Ok - I just downloaded Infranview here at work and it seems to be very easy to use and a small FREE download - if you are not a computer wizard I'd suggest giving Infranview a try - you just "open" the picture you want to edit - choose "image" and "resize/resample" then pick the size you want to edit the picture to (probably 640 x 480 or 800 x 600) and "save as" (if you just "save" it will overwrite your original - fine to do if you don't care - but I always save my shrunk down images with a different name so my original remains un-edited) - then email away.

[holliam]

If you have a Canon Rebel XT, I would strongly recommend that you get a photo editing program like the pp mentioned, but I'd recommend Adobe Photoshop Elements. It's an excellent program and though not free is reasonably priced for the features you get.

Also, if you are taking the pictures in RAW format, you'll need a program to convert them to TIF, JPEG, etc. I can't remember if the Canon software or Elements does this; I know you can with the full Photoshop program.

Holli

[kellyotn]

What OS are you using? If you are using Windows XP, you can just right click the photo file from Windows Explorer and select "Send To > Mail Recipient". A dialogue box comes up asking you if you wanna resize. I'm not sure if it works with Hotmail, though, it just starts up an Outlook email as that's my default.

Second easiest IMO is Picasa. Download it free from Google. They have a email function that works similar to what I described above. You put pictures in your "picture tray", select email and it'll ask you which program you wanna use, and one choice is a free email from them if Hotmail doesn't work. :-)

Both of these options leave your original untouched/unchanged. The programs create a temp file somewhere of the smaller image.

HTH

kelly