sending your photos via Email

There are basically three options available to you for obtaining image files that can be attached to an Email message.

· Have your photos put on a floppy disk or CD when your films are developed. (this is the least costly and most simplified method and available at almost all Photo-finishing outlets. )

· scan your photos onto your hard drive or a floppy. (this requires an accessory device called a scanner, and the quality of the scanned images is very dependant on technique and the original used.)

· Take your own Digital photos. (Great fun, but requires the purchase of a digital camera and accessories, which makes this the most costly method. However, also the most rewarding when you've mastered it !!)

The Four steps

No matter what Email program you may be using, there are four common steps for attaching photos to your messages ..

1. Telling the program to make an attachment

2. Finding the photos you wish to attach

3. Attaching them

4. sending the message

Using Outlook Express

1. Launch Outlook Express

2. single left click "Create New Mail" on the Toolbar

3. Maximize the "New Message" window which opens

4. You can do your attachments before or after the message is written. Order does not matter. When you are ready to do the attachment, tell the program to make an attachment by single left clicking the "PAPER CLIP" Icon on the Toobar at the top of your screen

5. A window will open which allows you to find the photos you wish to attach

6. When you have located the desired photo file, single left click on it to select it.

7. Attach the file by single left clicking on "Attach"

8. Repeat this process, for each photo file you wish to attach and when ready send the message.

Using Hotmail

1. Go online and sign-in to  Hotmail

2. single left click on  the"COMPOsE" box

3. You can do your attachments before or after the message is written. Order does not matter. When you are ready to do the attachment

4. Tell the program to make an attachment by single left clicking on  the "ATTACHMENTs" box

5. On next screen, single left click on the "BROWsE" box to find the photo you wish to attach

6. When you have located the desired  photo file, single left click on it to select it, and then single left click on the "OPEN" box.

7. single left click on the "ATTACH TO MEssAGE" box to attach the file  and wait for the file to be uploaded to Hotmail

8. Repeat this process, for each  photo file you wish to attach  and when all have been attached, single left click on the "DONE" box.

9. The program will return to your message, and when  ready, send the message

The procedure is similar for JUNO mail and AOL

1. On the "WRITE"  page in JUNO,  single left click the "ATTACH FILE" box to start the process.

2. For AOL,  select "WRITE MAIL" from the Toolbar, and single left click the " Attachments"  box to get started.

3. single left click the "attach" box on the screen that appears.

4. Find, and select the desired file by single left clicking on it, then single left click the "OPEN" box

5. single left click  the "OK"  box to finish, or "ATTACH" to select another file.