Question regarding resizing photos for email

Buster 6X6

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I used to have Photo shop C4 ,now I have MAC and needed something to manipulate my photographs I could only afford Lightroom2.7.
To make long story short I need to resize photos for eMail (100Mp)can I do it in Lightroom or I need some other program to do that? Any help is appreciated. I can't afford to buy Photoshop right now.

Greg
 

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You can resize any image using Apple's Mail program.

Drop our image into an e-mail. A menu appears in the bottom right of the e-mail giving you various image sizes.

Best to start at 72 ppi, and keep the image under 1000k before importing the file into your e-mail.
 

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it won't help on a mac, but on win platforms irfanview is great, does batch stuff too and strips exif info (camera and owner can be contained there) so its quite handy

http://www.irfanview.com/
 

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You probably realize this, but downsampling requires a bit of unsharp mask to look 'snappy' on-screen. Generally speaking I use a USM of about 40% 0.4 radius and 0 threshold to get that extra clarity. Obviously this requires some kind of app - PS etc.
 

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Lightroom will work fine.
 
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Buster 6X6

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Thanks for responding
I found out yesterday how to use Automator in MAC but I don't know if I did not save the images improperly or I did something else wrong ,when I wanted to post them, image files appeared like text but thats about it? No images.
Don I think I did resize images once about three months ago but I don't have a clue what I did.
Greg
 

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Greg,

I highly recommend Julliane Kosts FREE LR tutorials found on Adobe TV found here:

http://tv.adobe.com/

I've watched her videos many times and she has a pleasant but no nonsense approach to her demos and tutorials.

None of the insipid buddy talk and jocular silliness found in other online offerings.

Don
 
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