[Tacocaster]

Hey gang, my sister is currently studying abroad in Thailand and is wanting send pictures she's taken back stateside. Other than WinRAR or WinZIP is there any other compressesion software that would ease the emailing process? (on defualt settings, the archive doesn't get much smaller than the total of the file size.) Also, if you have any other ideas on how to have her send the photos to me, I'm all ears.

Thanks in advance.

[buck52]

if you/she plan on doing anything with them when she returns don't compress them at all... have her burn the original files to dvd and send them to you...

[calvin-c]

Depends on what you want to do with them. The easiest ways to significantly reduce the file size are to either reduce the size of the picture or lower the quality. (These are .jpg files, right? Those are already compressed which explains why the archive isn't much smaller than the original.)

Presumably the problem is transmission time? If it's email size (e.g. exceeds capacity of your Inbox) then there are places where she can post them from which you can download them.

[Tacocaster]

Originally Posted by calvin-c

Presumably the problem is transmission time? If it's email size (e.g. exceeds capacity of your Inbox) then there are places where she can post them from which you can download them.

I was going to go down that route, seems the easiest.

[calvin-c]

OK, there's a free service at http://www.largefilesasap.com/
I haven't used them so check them out first (hopefully somebody else can either recommend them or has another service they can recommend-I have my own domain & use that to upload/download large files).

but I agree, if the issue is mailbox size then this is the easiest way to get around it.

[PopPicker]

I regularly use both these.

YouSend it

Rapidshare

Both have a 100mb limit per file in their FREE service.

PP