Mavica Digital Camera/Win-Zip

[Cheryl]

When I e-mail pictures (e-mail size) to friends, they say it takes such a long time to download them. I installed win-zip. How can I compress them before e-mailing them? Also, will it download quicker on their end? Last question - when they view them, will they have to un-zip them or will they automatically un-zip by themselves?

I heard that you should put all your pictures in a folder and e-mail the entire folder. Will my friends have any trouble opening the folder?

I'm new at this digital camera stuff so need any help you can give me.

Thank you.

 

[jbcalg]

winzip has a feature called 'wizard' that takes you through the zip (compression) process till you get the hang of it, then you can use the 'classic' view

basically - open winzip, click and drag the file(s) you want into it
- and yes - they will also need a zip type program to open the file you send

there is an 'exe' or self extracting feature also (may be a separate program download)

folders are just folders - they can be downloaded to the desktop and opened from there - it saves your recipients having to save a bunch of pics to the same place

their download time depends on how many files you send, and the speed of their connection

BUT: jpg picture files are already compressed - you won't see any significant reduction in file size using winzip

you're better off adjusting the picture size (dimensions = file size basically) to get jpg files that can be up/down loaded quickly

but - then you lose 'screen' size and some definition

what to do:
you can adjust your camera settings so it takes smaller pictures - most digcams have something like sm/med/lrg settings for the pictures

use <u>irfanview</u> or some other graphic editor to reduce the size (and trim out the extra bits of the picture that don't add anything to the scene)

paint is a ms program which is probably already in your PC, look under start, programs, accessories

good luck, post back (i know you will