Photos for email.... How big, is too big?

I am having some problems when receiving photos through email. I have
a dial-up connection, as does a friend of mine and most of the time
when I get a picture from her it is often 700kb... 800kb or at times
well over a 1MB. It takes forever for it to download.

Isn't this too big for dial-up users? I was under the impression that
photos should be a much smaller file size, especially when dealing
with people who have a dial-up connection.

She often wonders if there could possibly be something my PC is doing
in the process to enlarge the file size because I have an older
machine but I told her that I thought that the file size was big
because she SENT it that way.

Any suggestions on what might be happening here?

Thanks in advance

DAVID

 

The size is typical of a BMP file. Try using JPG at 400x320.
The file size will be reduced to aroun 30kb and highly acceptable for
email.

 

Get a new friend.

 

Nekkid pics are supposed to be big. Especially if she has oversized hooters

 

That is a common problem.

She isn't making good decisions about how to send someone a pic.

You are correct, but many times the sender doesn't know how to resize a
photo.

For example, say someone took a pic with their digital camera and the
camera thinks the resolution of the photo should be sufficient to print
a nice pic as a 5x7 or whatever. A 5x7 print needs a lot more pixels
than you need to see a modest sized screen picture.

You are correct. She is wrong.

She's sending you pics that have way too big a filesize to be
gracefully/easily handled by dialup. She needs to learn enough about
how to handle graphics to send you a modest sized picture. She could be
trying to send a big .bmp file or she could be trying a big .jpg or
other file.

 

And what would you like as the prize for the stupidest reply in
about two months?

Me dumb. A date with a 38DDD hooker, of course.

 

That's SOME statement, buddy.

A JPG can easily be 3 MB if the author is an idiot. Of course,
the BMP would be 30MB's, but thankfully most digital cameras
save in JPG. NOT thankfully, many also offer image sizes of up
to 3000x2000 pixels and more.

 

Ahhh...so that's our problem!