Before sending photos, consider the size of the attachments and what the recipient really needs. If it makes sense, use one of these techniques to shrink the photo file size down to something more appropriate.
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Good video. Curious the option to set quality and/or the size of a photo- are they not proportional? If you increase the quality aren't you directly affecting the size, and vice versa? Said another way, how can you increase the quality without increasing the size?
Gene: Size means physical dimensions. Like width x height. Quality is how well the image is represented in the pixels. If you compress an image more, the quality suffers. So you can have a 1200x900 image that is high quality/larger file and a 1200x900 image that is low quality/smaller file.
Norm
3 months ago
Thank you for excellent video. Are there any similar options for photos in "messages"?
Norm: No, which is why exporting first is important if you want control over that.
Sheldon
3 months ago
Thanks bunches
Joann Maier
3 months ago
Since I have only needed to email photos taken by me with my phone, I have been able to email photos to myself, reduce the size via Preview, and then include the reduced size in emails to whoever. Luckily that process works for my needs--though there may be a simpler? better way?
Keith Richardson
3 months ago
I use screen shot plus crop to rapidly create the desired image. Is there a problem with doing this?
Joann: No, that's not a good way to do it. Sync your photos to your Mac with iCloud Photos or using a cable. That also takes care of backing them up. Then use one of the techniques here in this video to reduce the size.
Keith: Yes. You are doing it a very round-about way and losing a lot of image quality. Use one of the techniques I show here in this video.
Pete OBryan
3 months ago
I’ve been struggling for a time about this topic and you have cleared up my confusion. Thank you.
Dave Hunter
2 months ago
This was another fabulous, pearl-heavy tutorial that really cleared up my confusion with the "weird" changes I had been having with sending photos in email messages. Thanks again!
Sound Advice
2 months ago
Sending phots in gmail is particularly frustrating. I'm trying to wean off Google but every time I take a photo it uploads to Google Photos. When I try to stop it I am warned that deleting phots from their site will delete from all my devices! Any experience with this?
Thanks for all you do!
Sound Advice: I don't use Google Photos, but I'd imagine it means that you are using Google Photos, their photo cloud service, and so your photos are all stored there. Just like with any cloud service, you see the same library on every device. There is just ONE Google Photos library, and you see it everywhere. So deleting a photo means its is gone from your Google Photos library and would then be gone no matter which device you use to look at your Google Photos.
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It well worth the effort to learn ImageMagick and Terminal. Amongst a host of other functions, you resize a batch of image file:
magick mogrify -path path/to/destination/folder/ -resize 50% -quality 80 *.jpg
Good video. Curious the option to set quality and/or the size of a photo- are they not proportional? If you increase the quality aren't you directly affecting the size, and vice versa? Said another way, how can you increase the quality without increasing the size?
Gene: Size means physical dimensions. Like width x height. Quality is how well the image is represented in the pixels. If you compress an image more, the quality suffers. So you can have a 1200x900 image that is high quality/larger file and a 1200x900 image that is low quality/smaller file.
Thank you for excellent video. Are there any similar options for photos in "messages"?
Norm: No, which is why exporting first is important if you want control over that.
Thanks bunches
Since I have only needed to email photos taken by me with my phone, I have been able to email photos to myself, reduce the size via Preview, and then include the reduced size in emails to whoever. Luckily that process works for my needs--though there may be a simpler? better way?
I use screen shot plus crop to rapidly create the desired image. Is there a problem with doing this?
Joann: No, that's not a good way to do it. Sync your photos to your Mac with iCloud Photos or using a cable. That also takes care of backing them up. Then use one of the techniques here in this video to reduce the size.
Keith: Yes. You are doing it a very round-about way and losing a lot of image quality. Use one of the techniques I show here in this video.
I’ve been struggling for a time about this topic and you have cleared up my confusion. Thank you.
This was another fabulous, pearl-heavy tutorial that really cleared up my confusion with the "weird" changes I had been having with sending photos in email messages. Thanks again!
Sending phots in gmail is particularly frustrating. I'm trying to wean off Google but every time I take a photo it uploads to Google Photos. When I try to stop it I am warned that deleting phots from their site will delete from all my devices! Any experience with this?
Thanks for all you do!
Sound Advice: I don't use Google Photos, but I'd imagine it means that you are using Google Photos, their photo cloud service, and so your photos are all stored there. Just like with any cloud service, you see the same library on every device. There is just ONE Google Photos library, and you see it everywhere. So deleting a photo means its is gone from your Google Photos library and would then be gone no matter which device you use to look at your Google Photos.