We have been asked several times on how to copy and print photos from emails or the internet true to size.
When you receive a photo in an email from someone, it is usually sent two ways:
Embedded in the E-mail or Attached to the E-mail:
Also you may scan a photo you wish to make a copy from or send to someone in an E-mail after you have scanned it.
1...Embedded in the email.
The Embedded photo or graphic you want to save, can be saved to a file on your computer
and then work with it from there.
Always save it in .jpg form or .bmp form. If it is a moving graphic then it is usually in .gif form
but it wont move unless it is saved in the .gif form
Usually you dont save these animated ones unless you are using them on a website.
Secondly
You can open a microsoft works document page, or microsoft word document page and leaving it open:
Open the Email with the photo
right click on the photo and a box will appear, click on copy picture.
Open the document page up and right click somewhere on the page and click paste.
It will paste the photo or graphic into the document page. You can then size it by placing your cursor on the corners of the photo and making it larger or smaller. Center it on the page.
Print from there. That is the easiest way to print a photo true to size.
2...Attached to the email:
You have to download the attached photo to a file on your computer.
Usually it download to MY PICTURES or on AOL to aol downloads.
Or You can make a folder to download your photos to.
Remember which folder you downloaded it to.
After downloading it to your computer or saving it from an Email on your computer, you can use it as is of if you have photo software and wish to make it lighter before you copy it or touch it up you can do that. I cannot tell you how to do that on this page because I dont know what kind of software each of you have. Most people have all different kinds of photo software.
You can resize it in software to a particular size but sometimes its too small when printed or too large.
After you have it ready to copy and brought up on your computer:
Do the same as above:
Open your microsoft works document or word document on your computer
right click on the photo and copy picture then paste to the document.
I have not found a better way to print a photo true to size to a particular sheet of copy paper or photo paper that is letter size.
3...Printing Scanned Images:
Your scanner will have a particular setting for you to print from but sometimes even these are too big or not the right size. Use the settings recommended in your scanner software
Or
save it to a folder after you scan it and follow directions above using the document way to print it.
Most photos or graphics that you go to online to a particular website can be saved to a folder on your computer by right clicking on the photo, and a box will open, then click, save picture as, and a box from your computer will come up usually where you have saved your last photo to and you can save it. Remember to save as .jpg at the end.( name.jpg) or(name.bmp).
Sometimes a website will let you copy it by right clicking on it and then you can paste as above straight into the document to print.
Some documents you want to copy need to be lightened before printing or turned into grayscale ; that is black and white.;
using your photo software.
Some websites will not let you copy their photo's most of the time these are copyrighted and is best not to try to copy them. If you see a particular graphic that is copyrighted and wont let you copy it and want to make a picture to frame at home and not use it on a website or anything, you can save the whole website page to your computer and open it up with your photo software and the photos will appear of the graphics; but these cannot be used on a website or publically on anything. Observe copyright laws on the internet.
Its like a photo in a magazine, you buy the magazine and the photo is there, you can use it at home and make a copy to put in a frame or scrapbook to keep but cannot use it publically anywhere or sell it.
We hope this is not confusing to you.
Sending photos from a scanner:
These photos sent in this manner never seem to be sent in a particular size. Some come really huge others small.
Save the scanned image to a folder on your computer first.
Then attach that file to the email or em-bed the photo in an email.
You might want to check the size with your photo software first before sending.
If you have photo software and have used it to print photos that come out the right size and the way you want, you are very lucky.
I find that putting a photo or graphic into a document page and sizing it as we want and then, printing it from there insures the correct size.
Sending someone a photo you have saved on your computer:
2 ways:
1...Embedded in an email
If you embed it in an email, you have a place on your particular email box that you can do that.
AOL has a little camera on the top right of its email box that you click on and lets you insert a photo in your email from that.
or you can copy and paste it to the email by opening your photo up on the screen and right clicking on it and click copy then go to your email and right click on an open space in your email and pasting it there.
2...Attached as an email attachment
Attaching it: usually your email box at the bottom has an attach file button
Using that you attach it to the email
One more note:
.bmp files take up more space and memory, .jpg next and then .gif the least amount of memory or space.
some software wont open gif files.
I usually save in .jpg if I can or .bmp next If I dont want the animated graphic to be animated. If i need to use the animated graphic on my website it has to be saved in .gif format.
If I cant save in .jpg i save in .bmp and change it to .jpg with my software to use on the website.
Try to change your .bmp ending files to .jpg if you can to save memory on your computer and if you have a website always use .jpg or .gif files for photos and graphics.
We hope this helps and if you are (cornfused) just ask us if we can help we will.
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