Posted by Larry Roche on February 24, 2010 at 8:24 PM
When I e-mail my pictures to family and friends, I send them as attachments. But this gets clumsy when you have 15 or 20 photos.
How do I send them so the recipient can just click picture after picture?
Thanks
Larry Roche
larry@larryspictures.net
Posted by Luke Ormand on February 24, 2010 at 8:53 PM
The easiest thing to do is create a flickr account (or something similar) and load your photos up to that. Then you can just give me people the link (and password if you so choose) so they can look at your photos whenever you want without the hassle of you sending emails and attachments and things like that.
You also could make .PDFs with all of the photos but that can be cumbersome. Another option is making a .zip file but people who are less than savvy with computers will likely have trouble opening and viewing the files.
- Luke
Posted by David Bostedo on February 24, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Other online sites with free picture upload and sharing that I've used are Picasa, Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, and Snapfish. Some of them require everyone to sign up for an account, though.
I've been using Picasa lately, but the newer versions are kind of annoying to download and use. Shutterfly and Snapfish are a little simpler to use in my opinion, since they aren't trying to do as much for you as Picasa.
Posted by Michael Elenko on February 24, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Larry,
Establishing a free online photosite is one workable approach. I use Smugmug, which is a paid yearly subscription. Most of the free sites include obnoxious advertising and I don't like forcing my viewers to suffer through that. I find Flickr's interface to be very challenging to navigate. Smugmug (and all the other subscription sites) allows you to send out links to whole galleries, individual images, or self-running slideshows.
Luke's idea of creating a .PDF slideshow is a good one. Some popular post-processing software tools, such as Lightroom, allow you to create such a slideshow very quickly and easily. What do you use to manage your images now?
If you have Photo Shop and a website of your own, you can create a slide-type show in PS. It creates the html files you need. Once you've created your 'show' you can use an ftp client, or IE's ftp client, to upload the pages to your site. You can then send the link to your e-mail recipients.
If you have MS OFFice with Powerpoint, you can create a Power Point Show (PPS) and send the *.pps file attached to an e-mail.
If you have an app such as Winzip, you can create a compressed Winzip 'archive' and send the zip file. The caveat is that the recpient will have to have an application that can unzip the archive. If you go this route, don't create a self-extracting archive. These are executable files (*.exe), that most e-mail programs will block.
-P
Posted by Darrell Epps on February 25, 2010 at 8:08 AM
Larry,
I have used Shutterfly for over a year now. It is free. You can establish a photo website and invite others to have access to the photos. I find it very user friendly and it has served my purpose well. You can also create photobooks online for viewing and a journal to let others know what is happening with your photography. It will also send out an email to all your quests when you add new or update existing photos or information. Give it a try!
Posted by Buck Ward on February 25, 2010 at 4:26 PM
I rarely send that many pictures to friends and family, but when I do, I usually break them into multple email messages with about 5 to 8 pictures each. Also, I send downsized pictures, such as those suitable for posting here on NPN. Sending multiple eamil messages is a bother, but indays past at least, some folks have had problems receiving or sending larger email messages.
The attached pictures are visible in the body of the email message, if the recipient has the settings in the email client app. set correctly. When friends send me image files, especially ones that haven't been properly downsized and are too large to view in the email window, I save the attachments to a folder and then view them with an image viewer. Perhaps you could send instructions on how to do this to your recipients.
Posted by Larry Roche on February 26, 2010 at 10:52 AM
I want to thank all of you for giving me an 'education' in e-mail.
Discussion
7 repliesHow do I send them so the recipient can just click picture after picture?
Thanks
Larry Roche
larry@larryspictures.net
You also could make .PDFs with all of the photos but that can be cumbersome. Another option is making a .zip file but people who are less than savvy with computers will likely have trouble opening and viewing the files.
- Luke
I've been using Picasa lately, but the newer versions are kind of annoying to download and use. Shutterfly and Snapfish are a little simpler to use in my opinion, since they aren't trying to do as much for you as Picasa.
Establishing a free online photosite is one workable approach. I use Smugmug, which is a paid yearly subscription. Most of the free sites include obnoxious advertising and I don't like forcing my viewers to suffer through that. I find Flickr's interface to be very challenging to navigate. Smugmug (and all the other subscription sites) allows you to send out links to whole galleries, individual images, or self-running slideshows.
Luke's idea of creating a .PDF slideshow is a good one. Some popular post-processing software tools, such as Lightroom, allow you to create such a slideshow very quickly and easily. What do you use to manage your images now?
ME
If you have MS OFFice with Powerpoint, you can create a Power Point Show (PPS) and send the *.pps file attached to an e-mail.
If you have an app such as Winzip, you can create a compressed Winzip 'archive' and send the zip file. The caveat is that the recpient will have to have an application that can unzip the archive. If you go this route, don't create a self-extracting archive. These are executable files (*.exe), that most e-mail programs will block.
-P
I have used Shutterfly for over a year now. It is free. You can establish a photo website and invite others to have access to the photos. I find it very user friendly and it has served my purpose well. You can also create photobooks online for viewing and a journal to let others know what is happening with your photography. It will also send out an email to all your quests when you add new or update existing photos or information. Give it a try!
The attached pictures are visible in the body of the email message, if the recipient has the settings in the email client app. set correctly. When friends send me image files, especially ones that haven't been properly downsized and are too large to view in the email window, I save the attachments to a folder and then view them with an image viewer. Perhaps you could send instructions on how to do this to your recipients.
Larry Roche