gif only supports 256 colors. if that’s ok with you just save it as a gif and attach to your email. jpgs are more popular though because they support full color. use save for web and select a compression ratio that gives you best quality while balancing file size.
And doing this…by attaching it to the email…will that allow the person who receives it to see the image/email as soon as they open the email? or will they have to open the attached file?
What he’s looking for is something like those imaged emails that we get that often advertise drugs, education, and software.
If your solution achieves this goal, I am set…thanks!
probably depends on how you attach it and how your email program works. AND on how the recipient’s email program works.
sometimes you just copy and paste to get the effect you want (lotus notes works like that). sometimes you might have to host the images on a web server and use html. or you might have to actually "Attach" it. and it’d show as an icon they’d have to click on or save. there are a lot of variables involved and without knowing a good many of them, it’s pretty hard to come up with a definitive solution.
In Outlook Express you can also "Insert" an image file as opposed to "Attaching" it. As Dave said, what appears at the other end depends on the email program they are using and how they have configured the security settings. You can also send an HTML file.
thanks guys. John, you said I could also send an HTML file. How would I go about doing that, and what would be the difference? (Is that what Dave was talking about when he said about hosting the image on a web server?)
Many people, if they’re security savvy, and ESPECIALLY if they’re Windows users, have set their email applications to NOT accept HTML-formatted email, or to strip all of the code so that it can’t execute as HTML, but reads as plain text instead.
These people may never see the fruits of your labor. The best thing may be to send the recipients a PDF or direct them to a webpage.
ok. cool. I will let the client know these things and see what he says. Thanks all, for your help. I appreciate it much.
