when I insert a picture in outlook the quality is degraded

[CAT]

Why does Oulook change the quality of an inserted picture, is there a setting
to stop this?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Version of Outlook?
Word or Outlook as the email editor?
Steps to reproduce?
What level of degradation are we speaking off?

 

[CAT]

Outlook 2002
Word as e-mail editor
Pictures are good quality when viewed in a picture editor but very fuzzy in
Outlook,
file size is reduced from for example 180KB to 40KB.
Using Tools, insert picture.

Version of Outlook?
Word or Outlook as the email editor?
Steps to reproduce?
What level of degradation are we speaking off?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Why does Oulook change the quality of an inserted picture, is there a
setting
to stop this?

 

[JonGee]

Outlook automatically reduces the size of the image

For some things you may not want the image quality to decrease, for instance copying text from a PDF (using the Snapshot tool), as it will appear fuzzy.

When going to paste the image into the body of the email, select the Paste Special option (from the Paste button, under the Message tab).

This will give you the option of pasting it as a BITMAP or DEVICE INDEPENDENT BITMAP, either of these will give you the original picture without quality loss.

Be aware that the size increase can be significant (e.g. x 10 bigger).

I haven't worked out how to change the settings so it inserts the picture as a bitmap as default.