Tips on Attaching Your Digital Photos to E-mails
We have patrons come to the Computer and Information Center (CIC) all of the time fresh off the slopes, trails or returning from a road trip through the parks. They have pictures they want to e-mail from their cameras to their friends and family. I don’t know why, it just makes their friends and family mad that they are not here too! All of our adult Internet 1-hour computers and our YS Internet computers are set up so you can plug the USB cable from your digital camera in. As long as your camera is recognized by our computers as a disk drive (Like it would if you put you USB thumb drive in), you can view your pictures and attach them to e-mails. The large majority of digital cameras will work this way.
The newer digital cameras are very high resolution and make huge picture files. The higher the “Mega Pixels”, the bigger the file. I was just looking at photos from my 8 mega pixel camera and the file sizes are from 1.6 all the way up to 6 megabytes. 1.6 isn’t too bad, but be careful about sending too many 6 megabyte pictures as e-mail attachments. Your recipients could have trouble opening them because of a slow Internet connection or slow computer and you could fill up their e-mail inbox. We have programs on our computer that make it quick and easy to reduce the size of your pictures before sending. Our staff can help you if you need it.
On our adult 1-hour Internet computers, you can use Adobe Photoshop Elements, Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Picasa2. On our adult express and Youth Services Internet computers (For our youth patrons only), you can use Quick Time Picture Viewer.
We have one of our adult word processors equipped with Adobe Photoshop Elements, Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Picasa2, but this is strictly for editing your pictures due to our word processors not having Internet connections.
Adobe Photoshop Elements is also a powerful photo editing program with many features and we have started offered classes to the public on it.
Keep taking those pictures!
Mark - Teton County Library Information Technology Manager