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File Size Reduction using MS Paint
If you find that the length of time which it takes to send photos by e-mail is unacceptable this is almost certainly due to the size of the image and thus the size of the file. Large photographic images take a long time to send and a long time for the recipient's computer to download them. Not only that, if there are a number of them in one e-mail the size of your e-mail may be such that your e-mail service provider or that of the recipient may decline to accept them.
For this reason, unless the recipient intends to make prints of the images it is usually best, given the resolution of most modern digital cameras, to reduce them in size before e-mailing them.
As an example of this, the picture below started life as a 2.4mB file which took over one and a half minutes to send from my computer. After size reduction the image which you see here is a 123kB file which takes less than 5 seconds to send on my not-very-fast broadband connection.
The image undeniably contains less detail than the original picture but unless the picture is to be printed or viewed full scale on a high definition monitor then the loss of detail is unimportant.
The way I achieved this was by reducing the picture size using Paint -a software program already included with Microsoft Windows.
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