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    What are you using for emailing photos?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Telkwa, Feb 23, 2008.

  1. Telkwa

    Telkwa Notebook Consultant

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    On dial-up so it's important to be able to compress the photos, and I want to use an e-mail client, not webmail.
    In Windows, using Picasa, Thunderbird, and Gmail, it's wonderfully easy to compress/compose/send an e-mail with photos.
    Picasa doesn't work quite as smoothly with TB in Linux. I started up Evolution just for the heck of it. Both F-Spot and Picasa work well with Evolution but not TB. I think I've got Evolution talking to GMail servers now so will go with that but wondering if anyone had any other methods.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. timberwolf

    timberwolf Notebook Consultant

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    I use imagemagick to resize my digital photos. I usually resize them from 2272x1704 to 640x480 pixels and that tends to reduce the filesizes from 1-2MB down to 100-200KB files.

    The imagemagick programs are consoled based, there are some GUI frontends, but I haven't tried any so can't offer any recommendations.
     
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