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How do you shrink photo file size on iPad when emailing?

zub3qin

zub3qin

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When you email photos from iPhone or Mac, the photo is automatically downsized to a filesize good for emailing. Not so true in iPad.

I just emailed 3 photos from iPad, and the email was 3.1 MB.

How can I send photos in a smaller size? Am I missing something?
 
I saw these online. It seems to dynamically give you different options based on the existing file size.

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Expect to see this added to iPad by the fall in 4.0, if not sooner in a 3.x update.
 
macduke said:
I saw these online. It seems to dynamically give you different options based on the existing file size.

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Expect to see this added to iPad by the fall in 4.0, if not sooner in a 3.x update.
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Great find. Thanks!
 
zub3qin said:
If so, this is a big oversight on Apple's part.... hope they fix this in the next OS update.
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Oversight how? Did your iPad take the pictures like your iPhone did?

All we do is sync pics from our computers, resize the pics on your computer and problem solved. 🙂
 
bytethese said:
Oversight how? Did your iPad take the pictures like your iPhone did?

All we do is sync pics from our computers, resize the pics on your computer and problem solved. 🙂
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My Mac doesn't take pics. Mailing photos from iPhoto let's me select the photo size. iPad should also. Oversight.
 
Reduce photo file size for email on the iPad

If you want to email a photo at a reduced file size then simply go to the photo. Tap "email photo" and a draft email with the photo comes up. To reduce the file size of the photo simply tap on the shown size in the top right corner of the email. You will then be able to select from a range of compression options. Pretty cool!
 
Two years ago that is still relevant. My wife was trying to send a photo from her iPad2 last week and couldn't figure out how to shrink the file size. I'll have to tell her this! 🙂
 
Hughhack said:
If you want to email a photo at a reduced file size then simply go to the photo. Tap "email photo" and a draft email with the photo comes up. To reduce the file size of the photo simply tap on the shown size in the top right corner of the email. You will then be able to select from a range of compression options. Pretty cool!
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still can't get this to work...there are no options that come up if I click on the photo, and I don't see a resize anywhere...
 
The interface for this on the iPad is different (and more obscure). If you send a photo via email, there is a field on the right showing how large the attachment is. It doesn't look like a button but if you tap it some resize options show up. Note that there is some threshold for this option, it is not presented if the image is already very small. I attached a 70k image and the option did not appear.
 

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Thank you Hughhack!! A simple answer to a simple question instead of complicating things that others were doing, or really not giving an answer.

One wonders why all the 'experts' didn't give this response
 
jcaswell said:
Thank you Hughhack!! A simple answer to a simple question instead of complicating things that others were doing, or really not giving an answer.

One wonders why all the 'experts' didn't give this response
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Probably because that option wasn't there in 2010 when the question was asked.
 
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