Friday, February 09, 2007

Resizing Photos in OS X Mail

Resizing Photos in OS X Mail
By Don@Smalldog.com

I first noticed this tip on the Unofficial Apple Weblog (www.tuaw.com/) but later also noticed it at Apple's Hot News RSS feed. I didn't realize that you could do this but it has saved me some steps. I showed it to a few people here at Small Dog and most
didn't know about it (except for Morgan and Jimmy that seem to know everything). Normally, when I would include a picture in an email, I would open iPhoto and find the picture I wanted to send and choose the "mail" icon to open a new mail message with that picture in it. When I did so, I was greeted with a dialog box that would let me choose the size of the photo. Then I would compose my email or drag the picture from that email message opened by iPhoto to the message I was working upon. A lot of steps to send a picture.

You do not have to go through all that! After you attach a photo to your email message (you can just drag-and-drop the image into the new message window from iPhoto), take a look in the bottom-right corner of your email message window, and you’ll see a pop-up menu where you can choose the image size you’d like to send. As soon as you choose a size (other than actual size), the image is immediately scaled down right within the email message window so you can see the exact size of the photo you’re sending.

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