[Rhodes22-list] Photo test

[Mary Lou Troy]

John,
I sent you the file I was trying to send to the list yesterday. Did you get it?

Thanks,

Mary Lou


At 10:03 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote:
>At 09:20 AM 5/30/2008 -0400, Bill Effros wrote:
> >Picassa automatically scales down photos when it emails to appropriate
> >email size.  Probably 640 wide by whatever that makes the height come to
> >so it fits on a 16:9 computer screen.
>
>FYI, the critical issue in e-mailing photo files is not the physical
>dimensions.  It's the file size.  While overall dimensions can be a
>factor, the main control is the amount of compression applied to
>reduce the file size for e-mailing (often inaccurately referred to as
>"Quality").
>
>Many programs, like Picasa, adopt reasonable standards to produce
>results that will work in most situations, so users don't have to be
>bothered with details like resolution, JPEG compression, and pixel
>dimensions.  However, at some point in your photo e-mailing efforts
>it will be necessary to know two pieces of information -
>
>1) How big is the file you are trying to e-mail?
>
>2) What is the size limit imposed by the recipient (if any)?
>
>In our case, the recipient is the rhodes22.org mailing list
>software.  Currently that size limit appears to be around 5Mb.  But
>that doesn't sound right to me because people have reported smaller
>attachments not getting thru.  In any case, I believe 5Mb is overly
>generous and that is likely to change in the future.  Also, the water
>gets muddy if you use the nabble.com interface, because it has its
>own set of rules (as yet unknown to me and almost certainly different) .
>
>More details when I have them.
>
>Cheers!
>
>John Lock
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