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Zero Effort Way to Shrink Photos for Emailing

We all know the problem. You want to email your photos to your friends but the image files are too large.
I solve this by using a little freebie called Photo Gadget Resize [1] that allows you to resize a photo by right clicking on the photo and simply selecting the size/quality you want. It works well, but here's another way that was suggested by subscriber John Campbell.

ShrinkPic [2] is a program that works in the background and detects when you are sending large photos. It then automatically resizes these photos based on settings you have pre-selected.

You don't do anything; it just does everything automatically. ShrinkPic works with a wide variety of email clients, including Outlook OE and Thunderbird, as well as with popular webmail services such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo.

I don't send photos often enough to make the overhead of running this utility worthwhile, but if you do, it could be just what you have been looking for. It's one of those rare products that solves a problem completely; you will never have to think about resizing again. Freeware, Windows 2000->Vista, 1,1MB

[1] http://www.xemico.com/photogadget/freeware.html
[2] http://www.onthegosoft.com/shrink_pic.htm?referer=shrinkpic

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