Sending photo's in jpeg format?

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Sending photo's in jpeg format?

I just sent a few photo's to someone and they couldn't see them, Subsequently asking me to send them again in jpeg format,

But what ever I do they always open when ever I attach them to an email. or the only command to attach them is to open them once selected from where ever they are, Dragging them from anywhere and dropping also opens them.

The only time any of my photo's appear as jpeg files is as source in iphoto files or if they've been modified and dragged to the desk top, even then they sometimes appear as originals instead of modified, cropped usually and when appearing as a jpeg file always open into a photo when dragged into an email.

Down loading to a frequent website also has them appearing as jpeg's if they appeared as jpegs on my desk top, but as photo's when appearing as photo's on my desk top.

What gives? is it a problem on my end or others? I don't see anything in any preferences that I can interpret as a possible solution. if anything at all that looks applicable to have my photo's appear as files instead of as open photo's in emails.

PB 12 G4, Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Posted on Sep 11, 2006 4:46 PM

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Answer 1

since85

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Sep 11, 2006 5:07 PM in response to Robert Van De Meeberg

Robert

Generally speaking, photo's or graphics in .jpeg or .tiff format can be opened and viewed by any graphics program/viewer, whether Mac, Linux or Windows based.

If the photos (and/or graphics) you are sending are a propriety format ie. Kodak, the reciever will not be able to view them unless they have a graphics program that can open that particular format.

If you are using Kodak, I would suggest you open your photos and resave them in .jpeg (preferable) or .tiff format and then send these.

Ron

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Answer 2

Sep 12, 2006 5:24 AM in response to since85

Thanks, but I don't see anything that indicates what format they except the IMG_### JPG number under each photo in the open iphoto application,

Accessing the application indirectly shows the photos as file icons with the numbers under them and there nothing in the preferences that indicates any possible different formats. Only appearance, double click function, rotate function. Nor anything in my mail preferences with references to anything about attachment formats and the photo's always open whenever I attach them to an email unlike attaching a Word or Eccel document which stay as file icons.

I also presume that If I put an open photo in an email it's going to show up at the other end as I sent it. Open photo's with whatever text I put with it, as it seemed to be with some other recent photo's sent to someone who was also using a Mac. and if there's a problem on the other end in the receivers mail format or reading application, Probably a Windows OS?

By contrast someone else sending me a bunch of Photo's as jpeg files, I didn't have any problem opening them as well as getting some emails with open photo's in the text, but I can't seem to send them the same way or know exactly how they are coming out on the other end.

PB 12 G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

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Answer 3

Sep 12, 2006 6:34 AM in response to Robert Van De Meeberg

Hi, Robert -

I'm probably going to be restating the obvious here, but I'm a bit confused and need some more information to try to help.

I just sent a few photo's to someone and they
couldn't see them, Subsequently asking me to send
them again in jpeg format,

You seem to be differentiating between photos and JPEGs. As since85 stated above, some photo apps save in proprietary formats. What photo app are you using? If it's not iPhoto then what file-type suffix does the file have? (You may need to go into the actual folder on your hard drive where the app stores its files, if the application hides the suffix by default.)

The only time any of my photo's appear as jpeg files
is as source in iphoto files or if they've been
modified and dragged to the desk top, even then they
sometimes appear as originals instead of modified,
cropped usually and when appearing as a jpeg file
always open into a photo when dragged into an email.

Down loading to a frequent website also has them
appearing as jpeg's if they appeared as jpegs on my
desk top, but as photo's when appearing as photo's on
my desk top.

One thought that just occurred to me - when you say that the file "opens", rather than appearing as a file; are you saying that, when you try to drag-and-drop an image file into Mail's message pane, the photo app that you use is activated onscreen, or that what appears in the Mail message pane is the image itself, rather than the file's desktop icon with the filename, size, etc.?

If the photo app is opening whenever you touch a JPEG, then you might need to go to that applications Preferences pane and see if there is an option to select/de-select that says something like "Always open file-type "xxx" with application "yyy".

If you are confused by Mal dropping the visible image into the message pane, rather than just a marker saying that there is an image file attached, then that's just a matter of getting used to Mail's methods. At work I use a web-based mail program that has a separate section at the top of the screen that tells me that a file is attached; at home i use Mail which inserts the visible image into the message itself.

So it appears to me that there are two issues:
1 - that the recipient possibly couldn't open a proprietary file-type and;
2 - that rather than showing a file icon (possibly because Mail doesn't recognize the file-type as an image file, either), Mail is inserting the visible JPEG image (which it DOES) recognize) into the message pane.

Of course, all of my assumptions could be completly off the mark, here, which is why I'm restating in hopes of clarification; I never claimed to be the brightest guy in the room!

A third possibility, if it's not a proprietary fle-type, and it's not Mail's actions, is that the file is getting corrupted in transit, or is losing one of the parts of the file. Historically, Mac files have had two parts - a "Data Fork", where the actual information is stored, and a "Resource Fork" which tells the system what KIND of a file it is. (This is why, for years, Mac users laughed at Windows users who actually had to use those ",zzz" file suffixes to tell their computers what kind of a file they had. On Macs, it was all hidden.) In any case; it sometimes happens that, as a file goes through the network, the Resource Fork information (which not all systems recognize as valid data) gets lost or corrupted, making the file unreadable by anyone. Compressing the files into, say, a .ZIP archive using an app like Stuffit will generally prevent this file corruption from happening (and will present the archived file's icon in the message pane, rather than the image data, if that was what was going on).

If any of this makes sense, let me know; if I'm totally wrong in my assumptions, then let me know as well, and let's see if we can clarify where I'm wrong and get you sorted out.

Mike Moyle

Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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Answer 4

Sep 12, 2006 1:16 PM in response to MikeMoyle

Thanks, I think I got it, I never knew the menu/info that "eventually" came up when the curser was held over the photo's also was the route to changing the formats. (which I never really looked at because of no perceived need to ever need to change the formats with my basic computer use)

I did the ctrl/click to bring up the next menu and then changed the photo's into the normal jpeg file icon format desired and see there other options available. It easy to figure out once I saw it and don't know if I'll ever use the other options, but now know where they are.

Though I would have expected the same commands to be available up on the normal menu bar once the item was selected. The command option also coming up a little slow for me.

As stated before I use iphoto, which are viewed as photo's except when accessing the app indirectly, (then having to know the right number of the jpeg to access/use it)

Hopefully that corrects the problem when sending to users of other OS systems and I'll remember to do the next time I need to send items to others and not knowing what OS they use.

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