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Tips on Emailing Images

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • May 3rd, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives)

From NY Times:
Q. When I started e-mailing pictures five years ago, I was taught that they could not be larger than one megabyte, so I always reduce the size of my pictures in Photoshop. Lately, however, I have been successfully receiving pictures that are more than one megabyte over my D.S.L. connection. Did the rules change?

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A. Back in the days of dial-up connections, many Internet service providers had smaller limits on the size of the file attachments on e-mail messages. Depending on the rules of the specific service provider and the amount of mail server space allotted to each customer, messages and their attachments often couldn’t exceed one or two megabytes in total size.

Now, with larger servers and the popularity of broadband connections that can transfer data much more quickly than dial-up modems, many providers have increased their maximum message size to 5 or 10 megabytes. That permits multiple pictures, small audio files or even short video clips to be easily attached to a message. Check with your Internet service provider for its attachment-size limits. Read more here

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  1. anthony,
    what’s shaking? good to see you still be illustratin’.
    larry

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