Emailing photos actual size

My emailed photo is being automatically reduced to a much smaller size, even when I select 'actual' size, and it tells me it is 3.2MBs, the actual file size sent is 118kb. I have tried sending in various ways and the same thing happens-this photo is for a newspaper article therefore they need it in the original size. How can I do this?

When Mail open's and the e-mail window is opened look in the lower right hand corner and set the image size to actual - Also make sure you are exporting the image as actual size from your photo edit app.

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I just figured it out! I set the email account I am using to try to send the photos as my default account by going to General > Settings > Mail > scrolling down to Default Account. Mine was set as my iCloud account. I switched it to gmail and now I can send photos.

How do I cancel an email I tried to send--I was a dolt and sent one with 8 photos (actual size) and my phone has been trying to send for four days. Thank you! Jeff

Greetings from Beantown!
I was a dolt and tried to email 8 photos (actual size) from my iPhone 4S and now my phone has been "working" trying to send for four days. Verizon has texted me that all my data for monthly plan is now used up and I am not able to "cancel" send for the message. Does anyone know how to cancel an email that is being sent?
Many thanks,
Jeff

Put your phone in Airplane mode, go to the mail app & see if you can delete the stuck mail now. If not, while still in Airplane mode, send yourself an email, it will go to the outbox, see if you can now delete both.

Since the latest update I cannot send photos Actual size or large. Medium size is as large as they go. I select Large and Actual, but to no avail. I was always able to do this before the update. I photo and I am up to date on everything. Any ideas?.

Since the latest update I cannot send photos Actual size or large. Medium size is as large as they go. I select Large and Actual, but to no avail. I was always able to do this before the update. iphoto 9. and I am up to date on everything. Any ideas?.

Are you also setting the file size in the New Message Window in Mail?

Email button "actual size" attaches reduced size

I recently noticed that when I use the "email button" in iphoto to email a photo and select "actual size" it ends up creating an email with the photo at a reduced size, however this does not happen when I attach photos using the photo browser button in Apple Mail. For instance I attached a 4.5 MB image directly from iphoto using the email button the image in the email ended up being 2.3 MB even though I selected actual size. I then opened Apple Mail and composed a new message, I selected the same photo with the photo browser button, dragged and dropped it and it attached at actual size. Is there any way to attach at actual size using the iphoto email button?

LN,
Thanks for the info. When I email the photo via the iphoto email button and select actual size, actual size is also selected in the email and the file size is still reduced. In addition the size reduction varies from email to email. For instance if I try to send the same 4.5 MB photo from iphoto it may make it 2.3 MB in one email and 3.0 MB in another, both times actual size was selected in iphoto and the email? Any ideas? Thanks again!

Possible to send photos actual size??

Is it possible to send pictures from an iPhone to a laptop/PC in actual size??
eg. I use a drawing app to draw round a 50 pence piece. I then save that as a picture on my iphone, but when I email it to my laptop and open it in on there, the size of the image is much bigger.
There must be some way to email over an actual size image?

Allan Sampson wrote:
If so, you can import the photo from your iPhone's Camera Roll with your computer as with any other digital camera.
I just tried this and unfortunately it didn't work - like the copy and paste method, for some reason the image on my laptop is slightly larger (dimensions) than the one on my iphone.
Infuriating - any other suggestions?

How do I set up iPhoto '11 version 9.2.1 to send emails with medium/Large/actual size? I try sending photos to a publisher and iPhoto automatically shrinks them to about 40 kB. Publisher needs between 0.5 and 7 MB. My ISP has a limit of 12MB

How can I get to email photos at higher resolution?
My "iPhoto" or "Mail" automatically reduces photos to about 40 KB .
My photos, taken with a common Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ20 include flora which I send to a publisher.
I am fairly new to my MacBook (Mac S X Version 10.6.8). I have been using it for a year.
I found I could not successfully send Large or Full size photos.
A few days ago I downloaded a new version of iPhoto (iPhoto '11 version 9.2.1).
Again, although I get the option of choosing to send small/medium/large//full size photos, it actually only sends them as "Small" (ie about 40kb) which is useless to publish. If I drag a picture onto the desktop (where my EXIF tells me it is full size) then attach it to an email by dragging, againg the sent email is at "small" size ~40KB).
My ISP (Westnet) tells me that their maximum accepted size is 12 MB.
I suspect that I have failed to set up iPhoto for this purpose. (I am well into retirement but, although geriatric, did study University Physics about half a century ago)

Also, just a note. iMac PPC is about iMacs that were available up to early 2006. iMac Intel is for iMacs that were made available early in to 2006 to present. Forums for what you have in your profile include:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook
Please consider posting and reviewing those locations in the future when you have a question that pertains to one of those products. You'll much more likely get a resposne then. This is a user to user forum, and you have to seek knowledge in the areas that are most likely to have the topic of your interest.

Can't email actual size photo

Hey guys, I have an iPhone 4 32gig AT&T. I wanted to email some photos and had the drop down option before to send as small, medium, large, actual size but that drop down option no longer exists. All pics are now sent as small size. I forced closed mail and powered down my iphone, no luck. No settings were changed since I lasted had that option.

I had the same problem w/ my new IP4
here's the fix:
go to settings/mail
tap your acct
when the next window opens, first of all, make sure your acct is turned on , then scroll down to smtp and tap that to open the next window.
Make sure your primary server is turned on as well.
then go down to the AT&T smtp server and turn it on also.
(this will ensure your mail goes out even if your primary server is down)
done.
now go back to your camera or photo app and try sending a pic or vid.
Apple support has informed me that it is normal for the pic/vid to be sent w/out any msg. indicating that it has done so. you'll just have to check it by sending something to yourself.
Hope this solves your prob

Emailing photos from iPhoto 09 via Mail always produces same photo size

I'm trying to email photos from iPhoto 09 using the Email button. No matter what photo size I choose (Small, Medium, Large, Actual Size) in the subsequent compose dialogue the resulting email always shows a small embedded photo. Any tips?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You also need to set the size in the New Message Window in Mail
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Photos shown actual size in iPhoto 10?

My photos in Mavericks are now SMALL and won't fill the window even when fully zoomed. Now I have photos that are smaller than their thubnails!
In every other version of iPhoto, the photo filled the window by default - why did Apple do this??

I'm sorry, I selected OS 10.9.1 - I don't know why it shows 10.5.2
I went from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, skipped Lion & Mountain Lion. In Snow Leopard, and every other version of iPhoto I've used since it came out, the zoom bar was just for sizing thumbnails. When double clicking a thumbnail, the photo would open and fill the window, and the zoom bar became greyed out.
In Mavericks, double clicking the thumbnail opens the photo in actual size, and the zoom bar is active and all the way to the left by default. If it's a big photo, it fills the window. But the problem is, if it's a small photo, which a lot of mine are because they came from emails, web, etc, even when fully zoomed, theyr'e really small.
Even in full screen mode, they show in actual size instead of filling the screen. I was told by a senior advisor that this is the new way they're doing it, but he didn't know why. I found that strange. After a few more calls to Apple tech support, all I could get was "that's how iPhoto is now". One advisor suggested that I get iPhoto from Snow Leopard and move it into Mavericks, so that's what I did. The photo viewing is now back to normal, with photos filling the window, but it won't sync proerly with my iPhone 5S.

Sending "Actual Size" photos

Hi- I tried to email a photo from iPhoto with the "actual Size" setting. But, it was "too large" for my server. So, is there something on my MacBook that will allow me to compress some photos and send them actual size in an email. Similar to zip files. Please walk me through this process. Thanks for your help.

Nope. You really can't put ten pounds in a five pound bag. The problem is that the "jpg" format is already compressed. You're trying to condense orange juice that's already been condensed!
You used "Zip" as an example and, yes, you can Zip a jpg but it won't be any smaller than the original jpg and frequently it's a bit larger.
The reality is that email is lousy for photos (and even worse for movies). Kinda like getting a new refrigerator delivered to your curbside mailbox. Your best solution is to rent server space (e.g., dot-Mac). Upload your photos and other large files to the server and allow friends and family to download from there.

Actual Size (Full Quality) photos being e-mailed at reduced sizes! Why?

Yesterday I e-mailed six photos to a party in Nova Scotia. Because of the large file size of the photos--ranging from 6.7 MB to 9.2 MB--I opted to e-mail each photo individually. In iPhoto I chose the Actual Size (Full Quality) size setting for each photo.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that every photo was e-mailed at a reduced size. For example, the indicated attachment size for the 6.7 MB photo was only 4.6 MB, and for the 9.2 MB photo only 6.1 MB. This is the first time I have noticed photos being e-mailed at reduced sizes even when the Actual Size (Full Quality) size setting has been chosen.
I would appreciate knowing what is going on here and what I need to do to remedy this situation.
Bob

Terence,
The problem remains unresolved. I followed your recommended procedure and got the same bizarre result!
I selected in iPhoto the same 9.2 MB photo I e-mailed to Nova Scotia yesterday, clicked on the Email icon, and selected Actual Size (Full Quality). The Mail 1 Photo window correctly showed the estimated size as 9.2 MB. I clicked on the Compose Message button which took me to the E-mail message window. I verified that the Image Size indicated at the lower right hand corner of the window was Actual Size. Interestingly enough, the Message Size indicated in the lower left hand corner of the window was 8.2 MB. Somehow my photo size was reduced 1 MB in the process of it being prepared for E-mail delivery! I then e-mailed the photo to myself. When I opened it up it showed 1 Attachment, 6.1 MB. This is the exact same result I got when I originally e-mailed this photo to Nova Scotia.
My primary concern here is that the quality of these photos is likely being compromised by this size reduction phenomenon which I have not previously noticed. I'm wondering whether this is a problem with iPhoto '09, Version 8.1 (415) to which I just recently upgraded from iPhoto '06. For your information I have also long employed iPhoto Library Manager (Currently version 3.5.5).
Perhaps you can try this same procedure and see if you get the same goofy result. I'll be eagerly awaiting your reply and advice on how to resolve this issue.
Bob

IPhoto on yosemite cannot send actual size photo

After upgrading to Yosemite, iPhoto is not sending pictures in the Actual size even after selecting that option under share -> email -> Actual Size (full quality). On the email, the message size is cut by half of the actual size of the picture. Can someone fix the bug?

I think, the problem is Mail. After sharing the photo to Mail in iPhoto, the Mail window will open with the image size set to "Medium". Have you checked the Mail window, if the size menu is set correctly?
Setting the size to "Actual size" will send a jpeg with the correct pixel size, but a slighter larger compression. A previously 2.5 MB jpeg will arrive at 1.9 JPEG.
If you want be sure, that Mail will transfer the original image file without any additional compression, export the original image file from iPhoto, use "File > Compress" and attach the zip file to the mail.

TS3276 the images (attachments) are automatically resized (smaller) when I send them to a customer. My email screen does not show a drop down menu box where you can leave as actual size. Is there a setting elsewhere that can be set.

Any suggestions on problem I have. I receive images, say a file that is 3 mgs through email on Safari mail and when I try to resend it or forward it or any other larger file, when it sends the file is reduced by about 1/3. My screen does not show and drop down menu with a feature to keep actual size or reduce that is suggested when I looked up solutions to the problem. I can't find a setting anywhere in mail that I can change to make sure my files are kept at actual size. I figure a setting got changed -don't know how - but it happened about a month ago. Caused problems as I work in graphics can't send files to clients as they come out too small. Any suggestions on how to fix.
Thanks

What email program are you using? And what do you mean by "Safari mail"?

I suddenly cannot email photos from iphoto. I get a box that says "server does not recognize username or password". I now have to use regular email and cannot re-size my photos.

Suddenly I can no longer email photos directly via iphoto mail. The box comes up that says "server does not recognize username or password". I used to be able to re-size my photos before sending so that they jpeg or pixels were larger for publishing in newspapers or magazines, but I can no longer do that. Apple tech support told me to change my iphoto "preferences" to using regular email to send. But that does not allow me to re-size. Is anyone else having this problem? I don't know if there was an update that caused this or what? Please help.

The box comes up that says "server does not recognize username or password".
That error message usually will pop up, when there is a conflict between the "From" setting for the mail account you are sending from and the selected outgoing mail server. Probably the outgoing Mail server is receiving a user name and password it does not understand. When the mail returns unsent, do you see the "Try again" panel with the option to select a different outgoing mail server?
If you do not see this panel, change the Mail "Preferences > General" to "If Outgoing server is unavailable: Show a list of alternate servers". This way, you will know, which server Mail is trying to send from.
Have you tried to set "From" pop-up menu to one of your other email addresses? If that works, change your settings in Mail to always send from this address. You can set this option in the Mail "Preferences > Composing: Send New Messages from". I have my "Send New Messages from" set to "iCloud". That is working best for me with iPhoto.

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