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On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:13:39 +0100 (BST) Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Neil Winchurst wrote: > > > My daughter has a fairly new camera. Yesterday she tried to send me > > an email with some of her pictures. She does not know about > > scaling an image prior to sending it as an attachment. There were > > some problems! > > > > I use GIMP for any photo editing, but I think that is far too big a > > program for her to use. So I am looking for a simple photo > > editing program. I have had a look around and have installed > > LightZone as a first try to see how that works out. Not sure yet. > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple photo editing > > program which I could set up on her computer? Really just to make > > sure that any attachments are not too big. > > Why are big attachments a problem? This is 2015. The days of the > super compressed GIF are long gone. > > Get used to dealing with big image files - they're going to quadruple > in size every few years. You're trying to solve the wrong problem. > One of the emails had several photo attachments. Claws mail just crashed when I tried to open it. Thunderbird managed but took a long time. So perhaps the problem was just too many attachments. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq