Reucing Size of Pictures with MSN Outlook Express

A computer friend of mine showed me an easy way to reduce the memory required for pictures, using MSN Outlook Express. It does not change the physical size of the picture and does not seem reduce the resolution. I am using Outlook Express with Window XP. I just started posting a few pictures. The originals were at 400-500 Kb. Now they are between 35-50 Kb so they can be posted. See below.

1.Bring picture up from file

2. Right click on it.

3. Chose "Send to"

4. Chose "Mail Recipient"

5. Box comes up that asks if you want to make picture smaller. Choose "yes" and click "okay".

6. Email format comes up after a couple of seconds as if you were going to send an email with the picture as an attachment to the email.

7. Double click on the email attachment. A box will come up asking whether you want to open or save the picture. Click on "save". Go back to the location where you pulled the picture from. Double click on that picture file. It will as you if you want to replace the file. Pick "yes". What you are doing is saving the same picture right over top of the original picture with the same name as you gave it originally.

8. Close the email page.

9. Go back to original picture file location.

10. Double click to bring it up. Right click and pick "properties". It should now be saved at about one tenth the original memory size, but you won't be able to tell the difference otherwise when you open it. Most of mine have been coming up between 35 and 50 Kb afterwords.

Good show, John. I wasn't aware of this feature in IE, but it is good to know. I knew you could attach them and save them, but never considered using the feature to compress them.

This might be an easy solution for people who do not have other means of compression.