Freeware for reducing digital shots for email

Guys & Gals
Have tried a number of programs that reduce a file for email transmission
and found some that were fair to middling in there application. I need a
program to supply to an elderly gentleman not particularly computer
literate. He uses a Minolta Diimage7 (I think) digital and downloads to
his pc. However, he needs some automated program that can take his images
and then "reduce" them to say around 300k for email transmission. I would
like to provide him advice on a freeware program I can download and provide
to him. However, as previously stated it has to be very very easy to use as
he suffers some confusion issues at times. Prefer some sort of basis image
viewer organiser that he simply has to say push a button that says send by
email when you are connected etc. The program should then resize etc. He
has a fairly low spec computer and only a dial up 28 k line. Any
suggestions.

regards

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Don From Down Under

irfanview.com =)

=bob=

"Don" wrote in message
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Guys & Gals
Have tried a number of programs that reduce a file for email transmission
and found some that were fair to middling in there application. I need a
program to supply to an elderly gentleman not particularly computer
literate. He uses a Minolta Diimage7 (I think) digital and downloads to
his pc. However, he needs some automated program that can take his images
and then "reduce" them to say around 300k for email transmission. I would
like to provide him advice on a freeware program I can download and
provide to him. However, as previously stated it has to be very very easy
to use as he suffers some confusion issues at times. Prefer some sort of
basis image viewer organiser that he simply has to say push a button that
says send by email when you are connected etc. The program should then
resize etc. He has a fairly low spec computer and only a dial up 28 k
line. Any suggestions.

regards

--
Don From Down Under

Give him a pointer (or copy of ) irfanview ( http://www.irfanview.com )
and take a look at the article on "batch-resizing images with irfanview
by Dwayne Alton" as a starting point for a worksheet you could give
him to run through his pictures. The tutorial is at
http://www.netoffices.com/articles/i...atchresize.htm
he would probably be OK with either a copy of the article printed out
to work from or maybe you could simplify it somewhat to give him
a simple workflow.

mikey

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irfanview.com =)

=bob=

"Don" wrote in message
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Guys & Gals
Have tried a number of programs that reduce a file for email
transmission
and found some that were fair to middling in there application. I need
a
program to supply to an elderly gentleman not particularly computer
literate. He uses a Minolta Diimage7 (I think) digital and downloads
to
his pc. However, he needs some automated program that can take his
images
and then "reduce" them to say around 300k for email transmission. I
would
like to provide him advice on a freeware program I can download and
provide to him. However, as previously stated it has to be very very
easy
to use as he suffers some confusion issues at times. Prefer some sort
of
basis image viewer organiser that he simply has to say push a button
that
says send by email when you are connected etc. The program should then
resize etc. He has a fairly low spec computer and only a dial up 28 k
line. Any suggestions.

regards

--
Don From Down Under

"Don" wrote in message
...

Guys & Gals
Have tried a number of programs that reduce a file for email transmission
and found some that were fair to middling in there application. I need a
program to supply to an elderly gentleman not particularly computer
literate. He uses a Minolta Diimage7 (I think) digital and downloads to
his pc. However, he needs some automated program that can take his images
and then "reduce" them to say around 300k for email transmission. I would
like to provide him advice on a freeware program I can download and
provide
to him. However, as previously stated it has to be very very easy to use
as
he suffers some confusion issues at times. Prefer some sort of basis
image
viewer organiser that he simply has to say push a button that says send by
email when you are connected etc. The program should then resize etc. He
has a fairly low spec computer and only a dial up 28 k line. Any
suggestions.

regards

--
Don From Down Under

Really good product which will also index every photo on your PC for uou is
Picassa from Google. It does the same job as Irfanview without the
navigation hassles of Irfanview. Both are free. I use both but for sending
email photos, you can't go past picassa.

Doug

"Don" wrote in message
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Guys & Gals
Have tried a number of programs that reduce a file for email transmission
and found some that were fair to middling in there application. I need a
program to supply to an elderly gentleman not particularly computer
literate. He uses a Minolta Diimage7 (I think) digital and downloads to
his pc. However, he needs some automated program that can take his images
and then "reduce" them to say around 300k for email transmission. I would
like to provide him advice on a freeware program I can download and
provide to him. However, as previously stated it has to be very very easy
to use as he suffers some confusion issues at times. Prefer some sort of
basis image viewer organiser that he simply has to say push a button that
says send by email when you are connected etc. The program should then
resize etc. He has a fairly low spec computer and only a dial up 28 k
line. Any suggestions.

regards

--
Don From Down Under


Try "Image Resizer" free from Microsoft, Downloadable from the "Powertoys
for Windows XP". While it is ONLY for XP, it is very easy to use. Just find
your photo, right click and choose "resize" and it will create a reduced
copy of the original image, several sizes available, just pick one and
click, new smaller image created in the same directory as the original,
with ("small" )added to the original name.

Folks, thanks for all your suggestions. Have a happy new year.

Don from Down Under
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"Don" wrote in message
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Guys & Gals
Have tried a number of programs that reduce a file for email transmission
and found some that were fair to middling in there application. I need a
program to supply to an elderly gentleman not particularly computer
literate. He uses a Minolta Diimage7 (I think) digital and downloads to
his pc. However, he needs some automated program that can take his
images and then "reduce" them to say around 300k for email transmission.
I would like to provide him advice on a freeware program I can download
and provide to him. However, as previously stated it has to be very very
easy to use as he suffers some confusion issues at times. Prefer some
sort of basis image viewer organiser that he simply has to say push a
button that says send by email when you are connected etc. The program
should then resize etc. He has a fairly low spec computer and only a
dial up 28 k line. Any suggestions.

regards

--
Don From Down Under


Try "Image Resizer" free from Microsoft, Downloadable from the "Powertoys
for Windows XP". While it is ONLY for XP, it is very easy to use. Just
find your photo, right click and choose "resize" and it will create a
reduced copy of the original image, several sizes available, just pick one
and click, new smaller image created in the same directory as the
original, with ("small" )added to the original name.