Automatically Reduce the Size of Pictures Included in an Email Message
When you send a message that exceeds the message size limit for either your or the recipient's mail server, the message will be returned to you and not delivered. This is often called a "bounced" message. Optimizing the size of pictures and attachments for e-mail helps to avoid exceeding the maximum message size limits associated with most e-mail accounts. Follow the steps below to automatically reduce pictures in size and include them as an attachment to an e-mail message
Steps
Online
- You can resize photos online with a tool like "Shrink Pictures". Upload your picture, set your options, and create the resized photo.
- Next, download the photo and use your own email program to send it.
In Outlook
- Create a new e-mail message in Outlook.
- Click Attach File, On the INSERT tab, in the include group
- On the Insert tab, click the Include Dialog Box Launcher
- Go to the Attachment Options pane, under Picture options, in the Select picture size drop-down list and click the size of the picture you want to include.
- Click send when you are finished composing your e-mail message
Tips
- If you embed the picture in the body of the message by using the Picture command in the Illustrations group, the automatic seizure re size feature is not available.
Warnings
- Your original picture will not be modified. Only the copy of the picture being sent will be reduced in size.
