Uploading or mailing scans

[nancylebov]

Here's another elementary question--now that I have a functioning scanner (Dell 924), I find that scans of buttons are above the 20K or 25K limits for attachments. How do I upload them or otherwise get them out into the world?

Update:: I'm sorry, folks--I took another look at those limits, and they were 20 or 25M, while the images are in the 25 to 50K range. Apparently, the reason my first effort to send an email failed wasn't because the file was too big, it was because I tried to type the name of the file in rather than browsing to get the whole path.

And I probably hallucinated the file sizes or limits because I was expecting things to not work.

In any case, I've both emailed the image and uploaded it at flickr.

Thanks very much for your answers.

The next question is that what I sent was the image of a button paper which has a moderately light-colored pastel background, and it came through so pale that the colors could hardly be seen. Is there anything to be done about that?

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Where do you want to get them to?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

The immediate goal is getting some masters to suecochran. Flickr might be the solution.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

yousendit.com is a good way to send files to a few people

[whc.livejournal.com]

I can think of several ways:

1) Find an email provider that allows bigger attachments
2) Upload to a photo service like flikr
3) Upload them to LJ (may require a paid account)
4) Upload them to a (possibly free) web hosting service.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

It should be possible to tweak the images to get the file size down without losing too much image quality. (Calligraphy button images ought to require only a fairly small color palette, which helps a lot.)

What image format are you using, and what software do you have for viewing/modifying images?

[twistedchick]

Are the images for advertising or for printing out and using? If you just want to let someone know what it looks like, it's possible to change resolution and reduce the file size to something much smaller. What kind of file are you using? Is it jpg, pic, tif, or what?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

At this point, they're for printing out and using. Eventually, I want to have images for my website.

[twistedchick]

If it's for use, you want as close to the full-scan image as possible to get the resolution. If it's for the website, or to email someone, it's better to reduce the size of the file by adjusting the quality of the resolution. This is easy to do with jpg files (usually), and possible with other versions.

[whc.livejournal.com]

The light background can probably be improved by changing the brightness and contrast settings at the time of the scan (if supported by the scanner drive) or adjusting later with a photo editing program.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Yes, photo editing program. It might be most effective to take the faint background out completely and then just lay in a new one of the desired color.