sunysteelfly76 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Here's the situation: I have a large picture file (134 MB - 150 pics) that I want to send. I want to compress the file so it can be emailed. I download WinZip. When I right click on the folder there is no option to compress. Is WinZip for extracting only? Do I need a seperate program for compressing files? Am I doing it wrong or missing something? Am I trying to do something that is not possible? Any help/suggestions welcomed. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclones Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Here's the situation: I have a large picture file (134 MB - 150 pics) that I want to send. I want to compress the file so it can be emailed. I download WinZip. When I right click on the folder there is no option to compress. Is WinZip for extracting only? Do I need a seperate program for compressing files? Am I doing it wrong or missing something? Am I trying to do something that is not possible? Any help/suggestions welcomed. Thanks Use WinRAR, you can do a search and download it. After you do, right click on the folder, click on "add to archive," then click the circle next to .ZIP file, and name it what you want. It will appear on your dektop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunysteelfly76 Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share Posted July 11, 2006 Thanks Cyclones. It gave me an option to compress and email, which I tried to do. The email never sent. When I clicked on the attachment it was 100 MB. Could be an issue with the email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 you're not going to get 134mb of image data down to an email-able size no matter WHAT compression tool you use. i mean, i doubt there's any way you get it under 100mb. you'll either want to resize the photos (using something like google's free tool, picasa) or break them up into 10-15 separate zip files to email. or just put them on a dang cd and mail it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 you're not going to get 134mb of image data down to an email-able size no matter WHAT compression tool you use. i mean, i doubt there's any way you get it under 100mb. you'll either want to resize the photos (using something like google's free tool, picasa) or break them up into 10-15 separate zip files to email. or just put them on a dang cd and mail it. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunysteelfly76 Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share Posted July 11, 2006 you're not going to get 134mb of image data down to an email-able size no matter WHAT compression tool you use. i mean, i doubt there's any way you get it under 100mb. you'll either want to resize the photos (using something like google's free tool, picasa) or break them up into 10-15 separate zip files to email. or just put them on a dang cd and mail it. I was trying to do the impossible. I wish technology could keep up with what I want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Thanks Cyclones. It gave me an option to compress and email, which I tried to do. The email never sent. When I clicked on the attachment it was 100 MB. Could be an issue with the email. I know Comcast and Yahoo have like a 10 meg maximum for an email. you're not going to get 134mb of image data down to an email-able size no matter WHAT compression tool you use. i mean, i doubt there's any way you get it under 100mb. you'll either want to resize the photos (using something like google's free tool, picasa) or break them up into 10-15 separate zip files to email. or just put them on a dang cd and mail it. Good info. If the person(s) you're sending this to just want to view and not reprint the photos, then resizing is your best option or loading them into Photobucket. Reducing a typical 2 meg photo to 4x6 format will reduce it to around 225k, or 4 pics per meg. In your case you look to have ~1 meg photos, but I believe the ratio would be the same, i.e. around 112k per photo, or ~10 per meg. Zip will NOT compress a photo very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Invent the transporter and just send whatever you took the pics of through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 I was trying to do the impossible. I wish technology could keep up with what I want to do. go to picasa.com and download and install the program. start it up and let it import the pix. then click on all the pix you want to send and click on the 'export' button. it will let you customize the exported file size. i'd crank them down to 600 pixels or so (just guessing here, you may want to do some trial and error), then you might have a batch you can pack into 2 or 3 <10MB emails, and still have good quality images for viewing on a computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Bear in mind that JPEG pictures are already compressed so further compression with Winzip or whatever is of little, if any, benefit. Several file types do not compress well, executables being one example. As for emailing a file of that size, most companies will reject the email to avoid choking their inbound email server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theeohiostate Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Do what Az stated or simply upload to hosting site, email them the link and they can download it themselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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