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Resize photos within Mail

Here's a nifty tip from Apple that I was completely unaware of. Whenever I email a photo, I do so via iPhoto, which takes care of resizing for me.

Apparently you can resize photos that you drop into Mail messages from the Finder just as easily. Once you've got the photo into the body of your message, a drop down menu will appear in the window's lower right hand corner. Click it to reveal several options: Small, Medium, Large and Full Size. Make your selection and your image is resized for you.

Perhaps you've been doing this for ages now, but as someone who uses iPhoto for this procedure, it was news to me.

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Here's a nifty tip from Apple that I was completely unaware of. Whenever I email a photo, I do so via iPhoto, which takes care of resizing...
 

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Pamela Cohen

HEY guys...I stil get my emails rejected on Craig's List for med. or small pics dragged into the email body of mail. So, I still need to know what a custom-sized cropped pic should measure, or in other words, how to resize an i-photo file and store it in a folder on my desktop, say, to use for email additions. Or, what program works on MAC to resize these photos.Pamela

April 21 2007 at 12:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dalasv

Thanks for your valuable input, jordan!

February 02 2007 at 1:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mark

I think Apple should add an option to control the JPEG quality (as in %). Now I have pictures which are medium sized and still the same size (in bytes) as larger pictures (as in pixels).

February 01 2007 at 8:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Celine

Yep, is new for me too ^_^ If only I'd know that before!

February 01 2007 at 6:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

@russell : I was just about to comment on the low-quality (in the visible sense, not as a JPEG compression setting) too. I must admit I'd assumed it was using a system-wide re-sizing function and that iPhoto would be no better, but I guess I'd better look into that now.

To Apple Inc. : If you're sending a reduced size version of an image to someone for whatever bandwidth/storage reasons, you really don't want the image to be compromised further by some crummy resize function, so how about a fix?

February 01 2007 at 3:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DMK

Thank you! Never noticed this feature.

February 01 2007 at 12:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
russell

Photos resized in Mail are of noticably lower quality than if you choose the same size when you push the Mail button in iPhoto. I don't know why this is.

January 31 2007 at 8:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jordan

you are sooooo

S.T.U.P.I.D.

This is why sites like digg are so much better than sites like this. If this was on digg, this woul have 10 diggs... then fall off into the wasteland of stupid stories...

January 31 2007 at 7:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
GmanMac

@6

if you look in the left hand corner it shows the file size reduction.

What a great tip.

January 31 2007 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric Carroll

It does actually resize the photos, you can see the Message size in KB at the bottom of the email too and it will update if you change the sizes...

And to clarify, this is STILL there if you use iPhoto to send images over to MAIL to email to someone, so if you say large when exporting from iPhoto, and you decide it needs to be smaller, you can still chose to make it smaller (although it won't make it BIGGER than the size you sent from iPhoto)...

January 31 2007 at 6:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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