I have been emailed some photos in zipped form. I can unzip them to view them on the PC. I would like to copy them to a memory stick to get some prints done.
I have copied them to a memory stick, but they are in condensed form i.e. very small. How do I put them on the stick in unzipped format?
Simple language please.
TIA
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Forget the USB stick for now, that will complicate matters. Let's make sure you have what you think you have. Did you receive just one file in the email? If so, what was the original file name, including the extension (e.g. photos.zip).
Do you know how to copy the email attachment(s) to your hard disk? Often it's something like right clicking the filename, then save to disk. You usually then get a prompt up asking where do you want to save it, which will often be already set up as Documents (Windows 7) or My Documents (earlier Windows) - apologies to all if there are slight inaccuracies here :-) To be tidy, you can create a new folder called "24 October pictures", usually by right clicking in the right hand panel then click New, then Folder. Then click Save to save the attachment onto your computer.
Now open Computer (Windows 7) or My Computer (earlier Windows) then click on Documents (Windows 7) or My Documents (earlier Windows) and locate the folder you just made, then click on it (may require double click according to taste). You should see the file you just "exported" from email. Try double clicking the file to see what happens. If it truly a zipped file and you are on a recent Windows version it should open as though it was a normal folder and you should see the individual photo files. If you open a picture (i.e. double click a filename) does it open up normal size?
If so, now plug in your USB stick. on the screen showing the individual file names, select all the pictures (Crl A is one way). Then copy them )with them all selected, right click and choose Copy, or Ctrl C). Now Explore to your USB stick. You can create a folder for the pictures as described above, or simply Paste them onto the stick (either right click then paste, or Ctrl V).
btw there are many ways to get prints done - for a lot, I would send them to Snapfish or one of the online services. But for a few, some stores (e.g. my local Tesco's) has a machine you can plug your stick into to print just a few.
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Duncan,
as an aside, you should not zip photos. JPEG is a compressed format. (I'm assuming they're JPEGs and not RAW or TIFF) There's no point compressing what's already compressed (by a process specifically designed for photos).
You can plead not guilty as you are the recipient!
Smokie's reply covers the detail.
A printing service will almost without exception only print JPEGs. If they are zipped the machine at wherever you go will probably not be smart enough to unzip them so make sure you copy files with a .JPEG extension to your USB stick. Don't forget that the more you compress a JPEG the more detail you are throwing away. There is something of an obsession with "saving space" which is unnecessary with the size of modern disk drives. Some people are catching on and uncompressed music is making a comeback (sorry, severe thread drift there).
Basically something quite simple has been made unnecessarily complex by the zipping. It hasn't really helped and it has hindered.
Sorry if that sounded like first term Computer Studies, hope it helps.
John
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>> Duncan,
>> as an aside, you should not zip photos. JPEG is a compressed format. (I'm assuming
>> they're JPEGs and not RAW or TIFF) There's no point compressing what's already compressed (by
>> a process specifically designed for photos).
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In principal I agree entirely, but I've often received and sent a number of JPGs via email, it is often marginally more convenient to send them as one zipped file rather than individual JPGs. Same with PDFs. So the ZIP file is juts a convenient container format rather than used for compression per se.
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Agreed, I use the zip file as a convenient single container of many files.
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This will be why he was sent a zip file. Not to compress photos (ZIP would fail to compress JPEGs) but to make it easier to extract them. Better than having to save a load of file attachments one by one.
One thing I did wonder was maybe they were sent low resolution copies of the photos in the email to keep bandwidth usage down and to make sure the email was not too large. Photos from my camera are about 6Mb each (JPEG) or 10Mb (RAW). He might indeed have 'small' photos and needs to ask for better quality copies.
Just a thought.
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S, Z & R. Agreed, but it's causing him a bit of grief! I too wondered about the resolution but didn't want to over burden him with detail.
If I attach photos to email (Hotmail) the full res copies sit somewhere on MSoft's servers and the recipient gets a low res copy and can receive the full res if they want. The low res copies are visible in the email which is a user friendly approach I feel.
John
Last edited by: Tooslow on Fri 24 Sep 10 at 12:29
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Unzipping Photos - smokie
