Compressing Pictures

[Jock The Rock]

Gday

I need to send so pictures away to the insurance company to prove to them my car is in good nick.

At the moment the email is 31MB :o :D

Didnt want to send.

How can I compress the pictures but keep the size and quality?

Thanks

[slug_burner]

burn onto a CD and send them by snail mail

[rocket scientist]

Using Photoshop or similar program:
. Save as JPG
.Second window asks for quality setting:-select 2-4 on a scale of 12
.Information should show you the size of new file, for that size file it should compress to 500k-700k
.Quality at receiving end will be good enough to print.

I regularly compress photos for newspapers at the same rate and they print up fine.

Cheers.
:D

[weeds]

when i attached them to my email a box pops up on the right hand side asking if i want to reze the pics, i select small and they sem fine for who is receiving them, two clicks and it all done

don't ask me what version outlook i am using, i do know that i use Office 07

[HangOver]

if you have office try MS picture manager that can resize pics for you in about 3 steps, it can do multiple pics too which is handy

[loanrangie]

Mate forgot all the above and download Irfanview, its free and as soon as you open the program there is a button on the top right that says half size, open a picture click that button and immediately its half the size, there are custom size choices as well. The simplest program ever made , i use it before i open PS CS3 or any of the other 3 imaging programs i have for resizing an image.