How to size image for E-mail

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I need help! I'm going batty trying to figure out how to get images taken with my new Nikon CP950 to a snapshot size for attaching to E-Mail. I've been using Hotshots to resize but it seems like a lot of guess work. If I get the picture too small then make it larger the resolution is shot. What's the secret?

-- Jim Wilson (wils4543@bellatlantic.net), February 27, 2000

Answers

Save it as a jpeg file. You can take a 800X600 image, for viewing, save it around a quality 5 or 6 and it will be under 100k This is not a problem to email. This will be suitable for printing. A 1900X1200 image will be about 250k.

-- jonathan ratzlaff (jonathanr@clrtech.bc.ca), February 28, 2000.

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