Paste Photos to Email.

Pasting your pictures into outgoing emails presents several problems. First of all, if your email account is with Gmail, Yahoo or any other free web based system, you need to install an email program like Microsoft Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird. (They are both free.) and send and receive your Gmail / Yahoo mail from that rather than use the emails web site. Setting up an email client to handle your Gmail or Yahoo mail is not difficult and has lots of advantages, one of which is the ability to paste pictures directly into your outgoing emails.

Unfortunately, there are still two more problems to overcome.

1. Your pictures are almost certainly far to large. They need to be reduced to a sensible size, not only so that the recipient can see them without scrolling his screen but also so that they can be transmitted in a reasonably short time.

2. The picture paste format which Microsoft mail accepts is different to the one which Mozilla accepts.

Staxofax overcomes both of these problems for you..........

Open you email program and start an outgoing email.. This is Mozilla.....

Pasting to Mozilla

Now bring up Staxofax and choose "Browse and paste" from the pictures menu...

This is the Staxofax picture browser.

Staxofax thumbnails

Note the small control panel beneath the picture the mouse is over. The four small buttons marked 1 to 4 are for pasting.

Button 1 pastes the clip format one at full size. (Format 1 suits Mozilla)
Button 2 pastes the clip format one with size reduction.
Button 3 pastes the clip Format two at full size (Format 2 suits Microsoft Mail)
Button 4 pastes the clip Format two with size reduction.

I'm using Mozilla so I click on button 2..... and in it goes reduced to 6 inches wide.

Photo pasted to Mozilla

Had I been using Microsoft Mail....

Photo pasted to Microsoft Mail

the procedure would have been the same except that I would click button 4 to paste.

So why bother with the full size buttons?

There are occasions when you would not want a picture reduced. For example, the screen shots on this page. I would always want to paste them full size for clarity.

Who decides how much size reduction is applied?

You do.. Just set the width you want in the Options screen.

So, to paste your digital photos into emails..

1. Use a PC based email program not a web based one.
2. Get Staxofax to do the rest.

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