emailing shots into paper

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I had a game yesterday and the local paper wanted a couple sent at half time, so that they could meet the printing deadline for Mondays edition.
The problem it seemed to take ages to upload and send.

This was my procedure , using Orange dongle. Open up photomechanic, pick shot, open up in elements for quick check, and adjust. save as file about 500k to desktop.did this 3 times
Then open firefox, get my Virgin email, send email with attachments.
Paper were happy with shots but i was pushing it for time.
Is there any quicker ways.
 
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That sounds about right, although at 500k it's on the smallish side for print, but without knowing what pixel dimensions and compression rate you chose it's hard to say.

You can speed the upload process by

a) using an email client on your laptop (Outlook etc) which will save a lot of online time
b) Uploading via Ftp if it's available

The work flow sounds about right, although you could refine that by picking the shots in camera, locking them and then getting PM to ingress just the locked files.
 
File Transfer Protocol.

It's a method of direct file upload and most papers have a facility for it. Whether they let you use it or not is a different matter.
 
Couple of things may have caused this. Firstly maybe you were in a poor coverage area but more likely at H-T everyone is on their phone some maybe the network was under pressure. 500k is small and when I have to email I usually reduce to about 600-750k before emailing and always through outlook express on my laptop (not sure about any difference doing it on-line).
 
snapzz said:
Couple of things may have caused this. Firstly maybe you were in a poor coverage area but more likely at H-T everyone is on their phone some maybe the network was under pressure. 500k is small and when I have to email I usually reduce to about 600-750k before emailing and always through outlook express on my laptop (not sure about any difference doing it on-line).
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I always use email client on my PC, im with Sky who use google for their mail and you need to upload first and then send, uses twice as much data allowance sending via online mail as opposed to local on PC
 
my method is select pix in photomechanic, caption transfere to photoshop crop levels etc save as jpeg and sent via outlook express orm [if requested FTP] no problem file size between 500 - 1mb
 
I was using my macbook to send shots, so do not have outlook express. come to think of it the file sizes were just under 600k, the paper were happy with shots but will up the file sizes in the future.
will have to practice more
 
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I was using my macbook to send shots, so do not have outlook express. come to think of it the file sizes were just under 600k, the paper were happy with shots but will up the file sizes in the future.
will have to practice more
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Here you go, use the onborad Mac version or pick another:

http://email.about.com/od/macemailclients/tp/free.htm

It really will free up your workflow and minimise your data transfer.

I'm not sure if Elements supports it, but you can get email plugins for both PS and LR.
 
KL755 said:
500k!! :eek: The Archant papers I shoot for want em sent in at 2mb minimum :|
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I can understand that for a full page in the EADT weekend glossy, but it's a bit OTT for a 1/4 in the Ipswich Ad for example.

Look on the bright side though; you are getting money out of them. No mean feat in this climate!
 
Absolutely! i send them as big as they want aslong as the money appears in my bank :D I think they want them that size for reprints and such like...
 
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Pick, just us mail, it's fine. If I have bad signal on the 3G it can take ages... generally when I'm using O2, but with 3 it's fine. FTP is much faster so it you can get FTP details from the paper then use that. If you are on a mac the good ftp programs are Filezilla and CyberDuck.
 
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