What is the ideal image size and type to send a picture by email?
The image size is entirely up to you but we suggest that images over 600 x 800 pixels are too big for most purposes. Much smaller than that is usually best unless the person receiving the image will be making a large, high quality print from it. As regards the file type, the Pixel Grease User Guide covers this topic in some detail, but JPG is usually best for photographic images. • Isn’t the best way to compress picture files to put them into a ZIP file? Compressing images with Pixel Grease is much better than creating zip files. Putting JPG or GIF images in a zip file rarely results in significantly smaller file sizes. Other problems with zip files are: firstly they are not picture files and images must be extracted from the zip before viewing, secondly people are wary of opening zip files because they can potentially contain viruses. Furthermore, placing a picture in a zip file doesn’t resize the picture so the possibility of achieving a small file size is very limited indeed. • Is P
