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September - Attaching images
The beauty of taking digital pictures is that you can easily attach them to an email and send them off to your friends. Here’s how you do it:
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- Download your picture to your computer from your digital camera,
or select the picture from your photo-library on your PC. Make sure
you know the filepath the photo has been saved to (e.g. My Computer/My
Photos/Family/My Pic).
- Open your email browser and start a new email, usually by clicking
on a button on the left on your toolbar called ‘New’.
- Type in your recipient’s email address, type in a subject and type
your message in the message area.
- When you’ve finished typing your message, look for a paper clip symbol
on your email toolbar and click it once. If you can’t find this, or
your browser doesn’t have such a button, select the ‘Message’ menu,
and there should be an option to ‘Attach file’ or ‘Add attachment’.
(See figure 1)
Figure 1. Look for the paper clip symbol
on your email toolbar
- Once you hit the ‘Attach’ button or have made the ‘Attach’ command
in the ‘Message’ menu, your browser will open a dialog box asking you
to select the file to attach. You will need to trawl through your folders
until you find the right folder with the right file (the picture you
want to send). In the example filepath given above, you would first
have to select or double-click the ‘My Computer’ folder, followed by
the ‘My Photos’ folder and so on, until you arrive at the image in question.
Click ‘Attach’, ‘Select’ or ‘Choose’ (depending on your program and
computer), to attach your picture to your email.
- You should see an indication of your file having been attached to
the email – either as an icon at the end of the email message, or as
a filename in a list of attachments. (See figure 2)
Figure 2. The file name appears in the
attachments window
- Hit the ‘Send’ button. If the picture you are sending is a large one
in terms of the disk space it uses (especially if it is high-resolution),
then it may take a while for the email to be sent. It will take longer
again if you have a dial-up Internet connection rather than a cable
or ISDN one.
- Make sure your email has been sent before you close your email browser.
If it is still in the process of being sent, the email will be in the
‘Outbox’ folder. Only when your email appears in the ‘Sent Items’ folder
has your email been wholly dispatched.
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