Sending iphone Photo's via email after taking them?

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Sending iphone Photo's via email after taking them?

I recently bought a Mac Book Pro, and it seems (I could be wrong) that now when I take a photo, then choose that photo to Email from my iPhone it not longer gives me the option to choose the size of file I want to send. It just drops the pic into the body of the email, thus resulting in a small poor quality picture to the person receiving it. My father is normally the person receiving and he mentioned the quality being bad and that's when I really noticed that the option to pick small, medium, large or original size does not come up anymore. I want that option back. I have a 3Gs.

3Gs. Mac Book Pro, iOS 4

Posted on Jan 7, 2011 6:00 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 8, 2011 10:54 AM in response to applechuckn

When I email a photo it gives me the option of specifying the size. iOS 4.2.1.

The prompt appears when I tap SEND in the email app.

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Answer 2

athunt

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Jan 8, 2011 10:49 AM in response to applechuckn

Yeah, I just spoke to someone in tech support about this exact same issue and for some stupid reason this is now the way it will be! It seems like a step backwards and it makes me so f'in angry! One of the great things about taking hi-resolution photos with an iPhone was the ability to send them in the size you wanted. I might as well take pics with my old crappy cell phone as they're of equal quality to what I can now send with my iPhone4...
Very dumb move on Apple's part!!

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Answer 3

athunt

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Jan 8, 2011 11:00 AM in response to applechuckn

I just figured a work around solution until Apple (hopefully) puts this feature back. Go to your photo library. Select the photo you want. Hold your finger down on it for a second or two until "Copy" comes up. Copy the photo. Go to your mail, and paste the photo into the body of your e-mail. After you put in the address and any message you want, when you hit send it will ask you what size you want the photo to be. Select your size and off it goes.
It's a pain-in-the-*** extra step but at least it allows you to send large photos. Hopefully Apple doesn't do anything stupid and remove this feature on the next update...

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Answer 4

Jan 8, 2011 11:04 AM in response to athunt

My workaround is to choose the largest size in the popup that appears after tapping "send".

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Answer 5

alryder

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Jan 8, 2011 11:10 AM in response to applechuckn

I've been playing with this for about 10 minutes and here's what I found. If I email a photo that I took with my iPhone, either by viewing the picture and selecting send as email or copying and pasting the picture into a new email, it asks what size I want to send the picture as. If I email a photo I saved from Safari or imported from my computer it does not ask about the size, it just sends the picture.

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Answer 6

Jan 8, 2011 12:46 PM in response to alryder

Presumably at whatever size it was on the website. You cannot improve the resolution of an existing image, you can only degrade it.

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Answer 7

Jan 13, 2011 11:13 AM in response to applechuckn

hi
There are no other options to send the photo, we can only send by mail, not by MMS nor by bluetooth, All cheap chinese phones also has this function and help us to choose the different mode , At apple i dont think software engineers think for all these options

anybody can help here

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Answer 8

Jan 13, 2011 11:26 AM in response to paddy2313

My iPhone gives the options of Email Photo, MMS, Assign to Contact, use as wallpaper and print. So you can send photos via MMS just not bluetooth. When I go to e-mail I get 4 size choices for the photo small, medium, large and actualy size which is the largest file size.

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Answer 9

Mar 15, 2011 5:46 AM in response to applechuckn

I have the same problem.

Sometimes the iPhone offers to scale an image, sometimes not. It doesn't matter where the picture is from. It happens with saved webpage images, screenshots, and photo library images.

Perhaps it has something to do with the file size. If the image is already small, perhaps it doesn't give an option.

The problem is that I wanted to scale the image so that it displays in a certain size, regardless of the number of bytes needed to store the image on disk.

Annoying!

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Answer 10

Linnnnn

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Mar 15, 2011 11:45 PM in response to alryder

@alryder
In regards to Safari photos: it's likely because the photo from Safari is really low res. What the original sizes of the photos? Perhaps it's the same from your photo library (imported from your computer) too.

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Aizoon

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May 30, 2011 1:00 PM in response to Darrin Filer

It is down to the file size. The limit seems to be about 200 Kbytes.

What gets me is that it seems to reduce the image size on the iPhone rather than sending a reduced copy, as Windows does.

In doing so, its ****ed up irreplaceable pictures of my holiday 😟

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Answer 12

May 30, 2011 1:09 PM in response to Aizoon

What gets me is that it seems to reduce the image size on the iPhone rather than sending a reduced copy, as Windows does.

Wrong. It does no such thing.

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Answer 13

Dec 17, 2011 12:16 PM in response to applechuckn

You've probably long since solved this problem, but just to contribute to the hive mind...

I was running into the same issue, only it was inconsistent...some pix gave me the option, some didn't. After some trial and error what I realized is that pix taken with the camera over the screen (the front camera) are tiny files. You only get the multi-MB files when using the camera on the back. So all the theories above about file size seem to be true...you're only given the option when the files is suitably large. Self-portraits using the front camera (therefore tiny in size) don't trigger the option to further compress the image.

(Oh and this is using an iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1.)

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