Compressing Files

[skenergysolution]

I hope someone can help me!!

I've got a folder which is about 450mb worth of engagement photos, what is the best way to compress this?

I'm trying to send it across to my contacts via email, some of them using hotmail which only allows for 10mb attachments

[Mandat]

skenergysolution said:

I hope someone can help me!!

I've got a folder which is about 450mb worth of engagement photos, what is the best way to compress this?

I'm trying to send it across to my contacts via email, some of them using hotmail which only allows for 10mb attachments

If the photos are JPEG's then they are already compressed and you won't be able to squeeze them down much further with winzip or winrar. There may be other ways to compress the photos but if there are, I don't know them.

[twister]

If they're the JPEGs straight out of the camera, then chances are they've been saved at a far higher quality/lower compression level than is required if all you want to do is look at them onscreen or do regular photo-sized prints, and could easily tolerate being recompressed at a lower quality level. If you are just sending them for people to view onscreen, you could also resize them down to around 1-2mpix, and to be honest that's still good enough for most people to be printed as a 5x3 or 6x4 if you think anyone might want to do that as well. Combine a drop in resolution with a drop in quality setting, and you should be able to get the whole lot down to about 30MB without any difficulty.

Just remember to save the resized/lower quality versions somewhere else - overwriting your originals is a mistake you don't want to be making...

[The_Jackal]

I wouldnt send out multiple copies of 450Mb worth of files, especially if some people dont have a fast connection.
The sensible efficient way would be to share them centrally and then just send people a link. You can use any number of free photo sharing sites like Flickr etc.

[dilbert]

skenergysolution said:

I hope someone can help me!!

I've got a folder which is about 450mb worth of engagement photos, what is the best way to compress this?

I'm trying to send it across to my contacts via email, some of them using hotmail which only allows for 10mb attachments

50% compression is still considered good, and 225MB is still a lot of data by e-mail.

Burn it to a CD/DVD, and send it by post.

If it's literally hundreds of people, host it on the web.

[ClassicMercs]

The_Jackal said:

Flickr

+1

[lestag]

https://www.yousendit.com/cms/compareaccounts
free verison works for me . reciever gets an email with a link to download file(s)

[dudleybloke]

get a gmail account.

you get 10 gig storage and i'v sent attachments over 1 gig before.

only takes a minute to sign up and its free.