e mail

Hi
I sometimes put a pic embedded in my e mail
I decided that about 640 or 680 is best.

I ve realized that the size , ie the width of the photo
governs the width of the text

I don t want the reader to have to use the slide bar
to read every line so I try to keep
my photos below 680 width.

OK, I went to resize a pic in image ready
I resized it to 660
I put it in the e mail but the writing was much too wide

I went back to the original hotmail
I hilighted to the right of the photo

it was as if it had a ghost dimension of 1000
even though visibly it was 660

this extra ghost width showed up as blue

anyway, that was governing the text.

I went to photoshop adobe and resised in there

again I put it into th e e mail
this time everything was ok

I notice that a pic saved in image ready is

save optimized as ( at least I have to do that to get a
jpeg )

whereas in adobe its just save as and you get a jpeg image


Hope this does nt sound like so much jibberish

thanks for any comment

The easiest way to do it is to use "Save for web..." in Photoshop. It is actually using part of Imageready to save it, but it allows you to save as JPEG/PNG/GIF etc without having to start imageready. The Save As... command in photoshop may produce a JPEG, but it will not be optimized very well and will have a much larger file size than if you used Save for Web.

thanks for the tip but it
does nt explain why, when I cropped the pic
in image ready to 680
and then put in an e mail
using hot mail
the pic was actually in the e mail a lot wider than
that
when I used the pointer to highlight
I could see a ghost part of the image
the extra width was governing the text I
pasted in so anyone reading the e
mail would have to use the slider to read each
line
I like to use 680 width as I find
that appears well and fits the
average comp screen.

anyway when I cropped using adobe photoshop
then everything was ok I got a jpeg image
that was in the e mail at exactly 680 width

I ll have to remember that in future !

When you resized, did you change the "pixels per inch" value? make sure it's set to 72, the monitor standard.

No, I ve never touched anything like that
I just put the pic into image ready and changed the
image width.

Putting the image into hotmail resized to 680 or whatever
and having other images below it also at 690 width

I noticed, when pressing with the pointer, an extra (ghost )
width that was nt on the other pics

this width seems to govern the text which then becomes too wide for the screen

Anyway I ll just have to remember to resize in adobe
that seems to chop the images down to size without any
ghost remnant to mess things up !

Maybe e mail like hotmail will develope in the future
and allow you to set outgoing type to a fixed width
and get better control over things
Its all a bit hit and miss at present