Sending Big Picture Files by Email, please Help? (1 Viewer)

Penny Clarke

Well-known member

• May 14, 2015

• #1

I need to send some pictures for publication by email. I knew I wouldn't be able to email all the pictures in one go. But I can't even send one!!! Pictures have to be sent unedited, original size etc and 300dpi. The first picture I tried to send was 15.8 MB. I am using a Macbook Pro laptop.

I also tried to send someone an iphone video by email, can't do that either!

Can someone kindly give me advice on how I send these by email?

I don't want to pay, so need a free service to send these files. If I have to pay, then I might as well burn them onto a DVD and post!

Cheers
Penny:girl:

 

GrahameNZ

Well-known member

• May 14, 2015

• #2

Hi Penny,
Yep one of the hassles of emails.
Just set up a free account with one of these sites
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-cen...storage-dropbox-google-drive-onedrive-icloud/
Your pick.
Create a folder for each person / client and upload the images to it, then email them the link to the folder.
Easy
I use Mega, plenty of free storage and is easy to use.

 

Mono

Hi!

Staff member

Supporter

• May 14, 2015

• #3

Most email accounts have a file size limit of a couple of meg.
The thing to do is to upload the files to a free cloud service, such as Dropbox, Box, Google drive etc and then "share" the files or the folder that they are in, that will generate a link that you can email to the folk who can download the files at their leisure. As you are using a Mac the files may already be on your iCloud, depends on your settings, but I'm not sure how you go about share things that are on iCloud.

Edit
***Cross posted with above***

 

redeyedvideo

It's like water off a duck's back!

• May 14, 2015

• #4

Have you tried this?

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19074?locale=en_US

 

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KyleM

Well-known member

• May 15, 2015

• #5

Gmail can do 25mb per email... you need gmail on both ends in most cases there.

 

birdboybowley

Well-known member.....apparently so ;)

• May 15, 2015

• #6

So can hotmail......

 

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KyleM

Well-known member

• May 16, 2015

• #7

birdboybowley said:

So can hotmail......

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It can now? Good news, it was 10 last time I had to worry about this.

 

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hampers

Hampers

• May 16, 2015

• #8

If the recipient is an Apple user you can use MailDrop via the iCloud.

Phil

 

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Richard G

Well-known member

• May 16, 2015

• #9

How about wetransfer.com?

 

Surrey Sam

Active member

• May 19, 2015

• #10

Richard G said:

How about wetransfer.com?

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^^^
Use this, dead easy and reliable. :t: