The direct e-mail feature of ABC-View Manager

In this article I will describe how to send pictures by email using ABC-View.

Sounds familiar? Most pictures nowadays come from your digital camera and everyone, up to your grandma with her slow modem and hotmail address asks you for the pictures of the family reunion...

If you recognise this, read on!

You have two options here:

1. You set up a webpage with your pictures and send the link to everyone
2. You attach the pictures to your email so that the recipients see the pictures directly

ABC-view has a solution for option 1, but thats in another article. This article will describe option 2!

Create a small email

A very important thing is that you should reduce the size of the pictures.

Typically a digital picture these days ranges from 100kb to 2Mb in size. If you want to add - say - 10 pictures, you could end up with a huge email!

The recipients that only have a phone line to connect to the internet will curse you for sending huge emails like that.

Old Method
The solution is to reduce the dimensions of the picture, as well as the compression used.

You can do this manually, by using a photo-editor, or perhaps even a batch image processor to do a number of images at the same time.

Then, you have to find the newly created downscaled images, and attach them to your email. Don't forget to remove them again afterwards, or you will end up with a zillion different versions scattered everywhere over your harddisk.

New method
But ABC-View is much more practical! It will do everything automatically. It will resize and recompress the pictures to reduce their filesize, then attach them to your email, and let you finish your email with your favourite email program (i.e. Outlook Express).

After finishing the email, ABC-View will automatically remove the temporary files it created for this. And your original images remain untouched!

How to use the email feature in ABC-View

• Add the files you want to email to ABC-View in the usual way.
• Select the pictures you want to email by shift-clicking or [ctrl]-clicking them
• Click on "Email-a-Friend"
• Check the option "Reduce image size" and set the maximum dimensions. Usually the default 500 x 500 pixels is adequate.
• Click on "Ok, Next" to start your default email program.
• You can finish the message there.. Select recipients, type a subject and press "Send"

This should get you started. Good luck with sending your emails!

Nils

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