I think that you are seeing the difference between "Outlook" and "Outlook Express."
They are two different programs, for two different purposes. "Outlook" only handles email because M$ thought it should, not because it is "good" at it.
[FWIW: The default name for a BMP file is … "Windows Bitmap," and it is a
Micro$crew "preferred" or "default" file type … even though most of the rest of the world uses file formats such as JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and even GIF.]
Ask your user that is using "Outlook" to open the email in either "Outlook Express" or Mozilla FireFox’s Thunderbird email client .
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ they will probably then be able to save the image as a JPEG.
"Rich Bail" wrote in message
The ‘file’ was actually one of 10 photos, embedded in an email by me
using
Elements 3.0. The photos were sent to two different people using Outlook Express. The first recipient, using Outlook, opened the email and saw the pictures. Wanting to save one, he right clicked on the photo and selected SAVE PICTURE AS. It only allowed him to save it as a BMP file, though the photos I ‘attached’ were JPG. After saving it to desktop he selected properties and found it to a 1.26 megabyte file in bitmap (BMP) format.
This
is a photo that was a 49 kilobyte file as a JPG file, so I am not
surprised
that the BMP file was much larger. Another recipient opened the same
email
using Outlook Express. He also saved the by selecting SAVE PICTURE AS. In his case, however, it was a JPG file with no other save option. It was 49 KB, just as I sent it.
Is there any setting that would convert a .jpg embedded by Elements 3.0
into
a .bmp file?
"Smmurph" wrote in message
Rich,
This would be hard to answer without knowing a little more info. For instance, the person opening the files in Outlook, did they open the
file
in another program first? Was the save as type list disabled, and not
able
to send? How would they know it was saving at 1.26mb before they saved
it?
Sean
"Rich Bail" wrote in message
I sent some people an email with several pictures (which were .jpg
files)
included. I used Elements 3.0, which sent the email using Outlook
Express.
One recipient got it using Outlook. It would only ‘save picture as’ a .BMP file, Another got it using Outlook Express and it was saved as a .jpg. Any idea why they could not be ‘saved as’ a .jpg. The .jpg file
was
49KB, the .BMP was 1.26MB.
