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On 10/07/2015 13:13, Gordon Henderson 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. > > Gordon > Saw list replies. I have a similar problem with my daughter, as they are sent direct from her camera (big files). Taught her to a) upload to her photo folders on her computer. (Windows OS) b) resize in Irfan View, [very simple], c) save resized and d) send by email. -- regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq