Shooting For the Internet
When shooting for the Internet, image quality is definitely not the topmost criterion. You will need to reduce the size of your pictures and optimize them to make them e-mail friendly. If you want to skip all that post-processing and tackle the problem at the source, you need to change some settings in your digital camera. A lot of digital cameras these days come with an ‘e-mail mode’ feature that automatically sets the camera to shoot in low resolution. If your camera doesn’t have this mode, you need to manually set your camera to the lowest possible resolution typically 640 x 480. Pictures shot at 640 x 480 have the optimum pixel resolution for e-mail or Web sites; anything lower than that is just not worth the kilobytes you save on.
Liven Up Your E-mails
When sending pictures to your relatives or friends, there’s a lot you can do to make the e-mail more appealing than just sending photos as attachments. If you’re using an e-mail client such as Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird, you can use their inbuilt HTML editors to embed the pictures in the body of the mail. The advantage here is that you can add captions beneath the photos, and even arrange them the way you want them to be seen. You can go crazy with formatting adding lines, tables and even backgrounds to really give the e-mail a photo album effect. Though it may be time consuming, your recipients are sure to appreciate the effort.
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