Trouble adding picture to body of email

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Ed Sievers

Well, I lied.....actually I am able to add the
picture in Outlook Express, but it fills the whole
durn screen. I ended up shrinking the file size
from about 1.5MB to 45KB and then shrank the
"canvas" size from 4X6 to 2X3 using Photoshop but
when I add the smaller image it still fills nearly
fills the entire screen and you have to "scroll
away" to see the whole file. The only way I can
reduce the size of image after I have inserted it
in my email note is to click on it and drag the
corners inward....but then it doesn't maintain
aspect ratio, and I have to "push" the top and or
bottom in and sorta guess at the the proper aspect
ratio just by "eyeballing" it. I can finally get
there by this "brute force" method, but there's
gotta be a better way. What step am I missing?

I have searched archives (via deja.com) but to no
avail.

TIA
Ed in TX
 
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William Lefkovics [MVP]

I bet the guys in the Outlook Express newsgroup might have an idea. I
suspect you need to make the picture even smaller in dimension. Not sure
what 2x3 is. Try 320x240.

In Outlook 2007, with Word as the mandatory email editor, you can resize
images copied to the message body.
 
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Ed Sievers

Thanks William- I just hadn't shrunk the image
far enuff I guess. Took your advice and it looks
like 300X450 works well ..... it results in a
150KB image with the correct aspect ratio and it
looks fine on the monitor. Incidentally, I didn't
know which NG to try....but I appreciate your
response and "fix". Incidentally, when I type in
Outlook Express when searching for a NG, I get a
msg that says something like "No Newsgroups with
those words were found" Hmmmmm. Thanks again.
Ed S.


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