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Post by focalare on Apr 16, 2009 0:58:45 GMT
Hi Folks Hope you can help me with this. I am trying to do a favour for a friend by sending a 10MB .tiff file (a photo) by email. I tried it today via Microsoft Outlook but it bounced back as undeliverable. I realise that a 10MB attachment is rather large but I have sent photos of a similar size in .pdf format with no problem. Could the problem be to do with the fact that it is a .tiff file? Any help I could receive would be very much appreciated. In hope! Focalare  |
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Post by kubik8 on Apr 16, 2009 2:51:22 GMT
Similar size to the same address?
My guess would be their ISP won't accept files of that size, and the fact it's a .TIF is irrelevant.
ps you can chop files up if they're too large, but it's 4am and I'm too cream-crackered to talk sense. Someone will help before I wake.
G'night.
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Post by mikkh on Apr 16, 2009 8:56:15 GMT
TIF files are not very compact, and unless you're blowing them up to (literally) billboard type size, they have no need to be that large in both size and dimensions. You're probably viewing them through some user friendly software which is automatically reducing them in size to fit on screen. But in reality they're enormous and if you use Irfanview, you'll see how truly massive they are.
Irfanview can reduce them to a more manageable size though - something like 1024 x 768 should be fine, but you'll need to reduce that further to 800 x 600 if you intend to use them on the internet (not everyone has monitors capable of fitting 1024 x 768 on one screen)
If you then convert them to standard JPG's (again with Irfanview) set the quality to 100% (85% is the default) and you'll find the file size is roughly 100 times smaller
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 16, 2009 10:14:48 GMT
As mikkh says, TIFF files are huge, and mainly used by pro photographers and the printing industry. A fine jpeg is more than sufficient for run of the mill, day to day work. Just follow mikkh's advice and you should be OK.
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Post by buzzy on Apr 16, 2009 11:03:12 GMT
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Post by kubik8 on Apr 17, 2009 23:22:27 GMT
Umm, I don't wish to irritate anyone, but the original post clearly states that she understands the file is very large. Isn't it a tad patronizing to explain formats?
I'm no pro photo editor, but sometimes deal with TIF and RAW formats when asked to - say - edit a picture or blow up a small element of one to create a final image. In these cases, often the more data you have to work with is paramount to creating a decent result.
Best just to answer the question asked, imho.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 18, 2009 9:07:07 GMT
I'd go with Buzzy's suggestion as most email servers will probably 'say no' to such a large file.
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