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How do I resize my photos for e-mailing?

Article ID: 14
Last updated: 11 Sep, 2009
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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 new resizing feature in WinZip’s ‘Zip and E-mail’ function.

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.

Simply select your photos and right-click on them, then select Zip and E-mail filename.zipx

Images selected total 17.5 MB – Too large a file to e-mail

Note that the images selected total 17.5 MB - too large to e-mail! Now select the new (smaller) image sizes that you’d like to email…

Images selected total 17.5 MB – Too large a file to e-mail

You'll note that the attachment size is only 581 KB now - which you can send without any issues. So, just write your email message and click send…

Images selected total 17.5 MB – Too large a file to e-mail

Your message will send faster, take up less space in your inbox and, if the recipient has WinZip Pro, he can even view the images without extracting them first!

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