Help sending photos

[john lucas]

long story short I just switched from a Mac to a Dell computer. I just finished writing an article. I save the photos from Lightroom in a folder on my deskstop and label each one with the number and title. I can't seem to find a way to send them to the editor without losing the labels. It just sends the photo. I used to just hit Shift and hightlight as many as I wanted to send and then attach them to the e-mail. That was on my mac. Can't figure out how do do that with the Dell laptop.

 

[Chris Fairbanks]

long story short I just switched from a Mac to a Dell computer. I just finished writing an article. I save the photos from Lightroom in a folder on my deskstop and label each one with the number and title. I can't seem to find a way to send them to the editor without losing the labels. It just sends the photo. I used to just hit Shift and hightlight as many as I wanted to send and then attach them to the e-mail. That was on my mac. Can't figure out how do do that with the Dell laptop.

John, What email program are you using on the Dell?

 

[Glenn Lefley]

I had a dell, once. Had a Mac switched to a dell because of cost. I now own a mac again. Found out is was more expensive because everytime I wanted to do something had to buy more software.

 

[Russell Nugent]

long story short I just switched from a Mac to a Dell computer. I just finished writing an article. I save the photos from Lightroom in a folder on my deskstop and label each one with the number and title. I can't seem to find a way to send them to the editor without losing the labels. It just sends the photo. I used to just hit Shift and hightlight as many as I wanted to send and then attach them to the e-mail. That was on my mac. Can't figure out how do do that with the Dell laptop.

By label do you mean the file name? If you right click on the individual image file and choose rename you should be able to call it what you want. Or do you mean a label within light room(not sure what that is)

 

[john lucas]

I'm so computer illiterate it's hard to tell you what I even need. I download the photos on light room into a folder. Then as I go through the article I assign a name and photo # to each photo. With my Mac I just opened an e-mail and clicked on insert. Then I selected selected the photos by clicking on one and hit shift and click on however many more I wanted to send. Then just clicked on open and they appeared in the e-mail ready to be send. I tried that on the Dell and it all seemed normal except the photos appear in the e-mail without any captions or names. I used to use Dropbox for large numbers of full size photos. I tried to download that this morning and all it wanted to do was back up everything on my computer (which I do need to do but not right this minute). Anyway i need to figure out someway to get these to the editor other than making a CD and snail mailing it.

 

[Dean Center]

The file names of the photos will be included with them on the email attachment. The name might be 9224.jpg or something, but it will be there. If you want to have a more meaningful name, as Russel said, you put the cursor over the file, click with the right mouse button, select rename and the name will be highlighted with the cursor there. Type in what you want. When you Attach them to the email, the method will depend on your email software, but generally it's click on Attach, and follow the prompts. You'll likely have to Search or Browse to the file to click it to Attach it. If your file is a desktop folder, when the email software invites you to Search or Browse, the Desktop will often be one item in a list displayed. It's a good way to manage what you want to do. If nothing else, get one of the neighborhood kids to show you how.

 

[Emiliano Achaval]

The way I do it for my Editor on Woodturning Magazine is I add all my pictures to a Shared Dropbox folder. On an email you have a limit on size, and most editors want full resolution images. My images are an average of 25MB each. I also have to rename all my files. I do this in order. Safety_1.jpg followed by Safety_2.jpg and so forth. Then I write a separate document with the captions or Sidebars with the names of the images. If your computer has a CD drive, I know of a few museums that would like to display that dinosaur, LOL There is no way to send more than say, 5 HD images on an email. The program will warn you that you will be creating a link to a folder, usually GDrive on Google. I have a Dropbox Pro account, so I use that.