Images sent in email problems

[ang2006]

I have a friend who has started sending me photos and yet what I get, while appearing fine in Photo Editor, once called upon to print are not much bigger than say 1 x 1 and the properties of the file are showing the printing to be correct. Can anyone tell me what is happening here. Her camera is a Fuji and I cannot blow these 1 X 1's up enough to put in a frame. Does anyone know what is causing these digital images to look this way? The images were extracted by Walmart and put on a CD but all I seem to get is thumbnail type picture when she sends them. I have never had this problem with my HP camera. Any ideas?

[dougste]

Sounds like what she is sending is the thumbnail off of the cd. The last cd I got from Inkleys had 3 sizes of files. Either that or she is reducing the size for email. The file size will tell you the story.

Doug

[jfrancho]

At what ppi are you printing?

[ang2006]

I am not exactly sure about the ppi...I know the properties of the file are extremely small...very. It must be as Dougste is saying......I have never used a commercial place like Walmart myself so am not aware of the 3 types on the CD. I am used to loading the images to computer myself......I was thinking this had to be a thumbnail image yet I could not figure out how she was sending them to me like that. Thanks for the help guys.

[jfrancho]

They might be small thumbnails, but how is it that they look "normal" in the photo editor? maybe they are small, a 4x6 at 300ppi is 1200x1800 pixels, or larger than most people's monitor.

[W.Smith]

Since most mail systems have an upper limit of 10 or 15MB per message (including attachments) your friend may not be able to send you more than 2 or 3 full-sized photos per mail message. That can be very inconvenient.

With Pando.com she can send you any number of full-sized photos/files upto 1GB per 'shipment'.
With Podmailing.com you/she can send unlimited size files/folders!
(But is your internet connection fast enough?).