format/picture in email

[becca]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) just switched from pc to mac.

very frustrated when trying to embed pic in an email.
Outlook would allow edit/resize, text wrap or float and create a hyperlink hotspot over the image. Ent. doesn't seem to support any of that formatting fuctionality...

help anyone?

 

[Diane Ross]

Ent. doesn't seem to support any of that formatting fuctionality...

That’s correct. Entourage is not Outlook. Outlook for Mac is due out late
2010.

User iPhoto to send:

You can control which e-mail application iPhoto uses from the General tab of
the Preferences pane under the iPhoto menu. The icon of the selected
application will appear for Email in the tool bar at the bottom of the
iPhoto window.

Select the photo and click on the purple E to email the photo. A window pops
up allowing you to select size. Click "Compose". A new email will open in
Entourage with the photo attached.

Use Object Palette in Entourage to send:

In Entourage 2008, select the new Toolbox and click on the right icon,
Object Palette. Select the camera tab. This puts you into iPhoto. It does
not give any options to reduce photos. As a comparison, email from iPhoto on
medium produced an attachment of 56.98 KB. The same photo dragged in from
the Object Palette was 1.13 MB.

Other options:

Automator Workflow:

<http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/simplephotoeditor.html>

There are several third party applications that allow you to resize.

iResize (freeware) <http://www.marcorotatori.com/index.php?p=iResizer>

EasyCrop $11.95 <http://www.yellowmug.com/easycrop/>

PhotoCropper $12.95 <http://www.sjake.com/products/photocropper/>

PhotoExpress 2 €5
<http://www.pathossoftware.com/PhotoExpress/PhotoExpress.html>

Graphic Converter $19.95 It's much more than a photo reducer.
<http://www.graphic-converter.net/tips.htm>
<http://www.graphic-converter.net/images/resize-big.gif>

Image Smith $15.95 <http://www.koingosw.com/products/imagesmith.php>

Visit Version Tracker <http://www.versiontracker.com> and do a search on
resize photos. You'll find several others.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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