One of the best ways to stay in touch with family and friends is by sending them copies of your best digital photos. Pictures of your self, your trips and even your typical or common activities around home let those you love know what you’re up to. It’s actually quite easy to do, provided you keep these things in mind:

·The format of the picture to be emailed should be jpeg (or .jpg). Most
digital cameras automatically assume you want to save in the .jpeg format
– but double check when you’re downloading your photos to your computer.

·Photos can take up a whole bunch of memory. Learn to size the photos you want
to email to about 3 x 5 inches. That’s an approximate measure, but keep in
mind, the larger the photo the more likely it is to cause problems at the other
end.

·Before you start the email sending photos, make sure you know where on your
computer you’ve stored the photos you want to send. You’ll be using your email
program to find and attach the photos you want to pass along.

The actual process for emailing your pictures is this:

1.Open your email program.

2.Compose the note you want to send along with the pictures, add the email
address, etc., just like you’re sending a normal email.

3.Find the button that “attaches” a file to your email. Depending on how you
send email, it may be a paper clip, an envelope with a letter over it or some
other icon. Just point your mouse at the buttons on top of your email program
until the words “attach” or something similar show up defining the button.
This is the one you want. Click on it.

4.A window will pop up. This is where you actually find the photos you want to
send. Generally you’ll have to click up or down through several folders to get
to the directory you want.

5.When you find the folder with the photos you want to send, simply click on
each one to attach it to the email. Then send the email and your photos are on
their way.

Tips and hints:
These tips and hints may make sending photos easier:

·It probably makes sense to attach only one or two photos to each email because
of the amount of memory the pictures use. You can send a series of emails, each
with one or two pictures attached.

·It may make sense to put copies of the photos you want to send on your desktop
to make them easier to find. If you do, just remember to move them off your
desktop (if they are copies, just delete them) when you’re done.