[Rhodes22-list] Photo test

[Bill Effros]

John,

As we both understand, file size is the issue, but a 640 pixel wide 
image is what most people see on their screens when they attach the file.

I have found most people can resize their images, but few know what the 
size should be.

Picassa does it automatically. 

If someone is manually resizing a picture for email, recipients are 
hoping to get an image that will fit on their screen.

Bill Effros



John Lock wrote:
> At 09:20 AM 5/30/2008 -0400, Bill Effros wrote:
>   
>> Picassa automatically scales down photos when it emails to appropriate
>> email size.  Probably 640 wide by whatever that makes the height come to
>> so it fits on a 16:9 computer screen.
>>     
>
> FYI, the critical issue in e-mailing photo files is not the physical 
> dimensions.  It's the file size.  While overall dimensions can be a 
> factor, the main control is the amount of compression applied to 
> reduce the file size for e-mailing (often inaccurately referred to as 
> "Quality").
>
> Many programs, like Picasa, adopt reasonable standards to produce 
> results that will work in most situations, so users don't have to be 
> bothered with details like resolution, JPEG compression, and pixel 
> dimensions.  However, at some point in your photo e-mailing efforts 
> it will be necessary to know two pieces of information -
>
> 1) How big is the file you are trying to e-mail?
>
> 2) What is the size limit imposed by the recipient (if any)?
>
> In our case, the recipient is the rhodes22.org mailing list 
> software.  Currently that size limit appears to be around 5Mb.  But 
> that doesn't sound right to me because people have reported smaller 
> attachments not getting thru.  In any case, I believe 5Mb is overly 
> generous and that is likely to change in the future.  Also, the water 
> gets muddy if you use the nabble.com interface, because it has its 
> own set of rules (as yet unknown to me and almost certainly different) .
>
> More details when I have them.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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