Motivation: Images for eMail should be 100KB or less
Software: Adobe Photoshop
 

One of the fastest ways to fall out of the good graces of friends is to inundate them with eMail photos that are huge in size and overwhelm their mailboxes and take forever to download. Often it is simple to crop and retouch and image and downsize it into the 300-600 pixel width range that results in an image of considerably less than 100KB (a 10-15 second download on - much easier to deliver.

This demo uses Adobe Photoshop 7 to illustrate the crop and downsizing methods but all of the tools and methods are available in most photo editor. And if they are not you migh want to consider upgrading your photo editor.

Now that the image is ready to post it is simple to just use the Attach command in any eMail browser to send the kilobyt "reduced" image. Some email programs like Mozilla Mail, Outlook Expres and Eudora allow an image to be imbedded right in the eMail note. But this requires that the receiver also have an equivalently functional eMail program at the other side to display the image properly - if you don't know just attach the photo(s).