Note: If you do not have an email application that supports simple MAPI, WinZip 15 or later will allow you to use the features described below through its own email interface. This will require you to define an email account first.
If your recipient plans to view your photos on-screen and has no plans to print them, it is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the resizing option in WinZip’s Zip and E-mail feature. This will allow you to send multiple photos in one Zip file that will not take forever for your recipient to download or clog up their inbox. Best of all, your recipient can download one Zip file rather than several separate attachments.
To do this, simply select your photos and right-click on them, then choose Zip and E-mail filename.zip
Note: The selected photo files total 17.5 MB - too large to email! Now select a picture size that you’d like to email
You can see that in this example that the attachment size is now only 794 KB, which you can send without any issues. Now you would write your email message and click Send
If you already have your photos in a Zip file, you can resize and send them by following the instructions below.
WinZip ribbon interface
- Open the Zip file in WinZip
- Select the photos in the Zip file that you want to send
- Choose Convert and Send on the ZipSend drop down menu
Note: You can skip step #2 if you want to convert and send all of the photos
- Choose your options and click OK
Legacy menus/toolbar
- Open the Zip file in WinZip
- Select the photos in the Zip file that you want to send
- Choose Send To
Mail Recipient (ZipSend) on the File menu
- Choose your options and click OK
If you are a WinZip Courier user, please see the Attachments Options help page. If you set a preferred size here, WinZip Courier will resize the photos you attach to an email message as it zips them.
Your message will send faster and take up less space in the recipient's inbox when you resize. Also, if the recipient has WinZip Pro, he or she can easily view all of the photos without extracting them first!
If you have questions about this information, please email Technical Support.
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