Pls help me send pics to a smartphone

[kenny]

I have no clue what settings to use to prepare the pic.

I need to send pics to my SO's phone.
Obviously I should convert them to JPEG, but then what?

AFAIK there are 3 things:
1) Resolution, which determines file size.
My camera's pics after processing in photoshop can be around 80 MB
I know that's way to big.
But how big (file size) should the pic be when I send it?
1 MB?
500 KB?
100 KB?

I'm asking what is usual.

2) Next I understand we can choose by number of pixels.
What's usual to view on a smartphone?
Around 600 x 400 px?

3) Next, there's another thingie DPI or dots per inch
72 dpi rings a bell.
Is that what you use?

 

[sonnyjane]

Are you sending from a computer? You can just email them to him and he can download them. Most email accounts have a max of 10-15 MB per email. 80MB for a single photo?? Is that raw? Just save a JPEG. Those are typically about 7-8 MB for me. Less if cropped. Don't fudge with anything else. He can save the pics to his phone and the phone will make any other adjustments.

 

[kenny]

Are you sending from a computer? You can just email them to him and he can download them. Most email accounts have a max of 10-15 MB per email. 80MB for a single photo?? Is that raw? Just save a JPEG. Those are typically about 7-8 MB for me. Less if cropped. Don't fudge with anything else. He can save the pics to his phone and the phone will make any other adjustments.

Thanks but he wants to forward them from his phone to the phones of his family.
He doesn't like using a computer for email.
He won't know how to make them smaller if I send them full size.

So I'm asking what are customary settings for pics y'all send/receive on your smartphones.
I've heard if files are too large they gobble up data of data plans and if connection is slow it takes forever.
Then the recipient hates you.

 

[sonnyjane]

I know you don't have a smart phone so try to be patient with me and I'll try to be patient with you....

It doesn't... work that way, at least not with an iPhone. It's not like sending files from one computer to another. When you email him a photo, and he chooses to download it to his phone, the smartphone will make necessary adjustments to the photo. For example someone emailed me some photos the other day. The raw photo was about 4MB. When I downloaded it to my phone, my phone converted it to around 500KB. Then, if you email them to family from your phone, it prompts you for you even more options, so you can send lower quality, smaller versions of the images or full-res. Obviously the smaller it is, the less data it would take to download. If you text them, it will send a manageable size of the photo. If you want to take some guesswork out, you can save them as a lower quality JPEG on your computer, trying to get around 1MB, but like I said, it's not like when you're dealing with computers and want 300 dpi etc. it just doesn't work that way. There's no "standard".

 

[kenny]

Okay, thanks.
That makes sense.

Sorry ... luddite here.

So in Photoshop when I do a "Save As" and choose JPEG it offers 10 quality levels for me to choose between.
When I select quality level 1, the lowest, the file ends up around 860 KB.
I'm just gonna go with that.

Thanks again.

 

[sonnyjane]

Okay, thanks.
That makes sense.

Sorry ... luddite here.

So in Photoshop when I do a "Save As" and choose JPEG it offers 10 quality levels for me to choose between.
When I select quality level 1, the lowest, the file ends up around 860 KB.
I'm just gonna go with that.

Thanks again.

That would be my recommendation. Then email to him and he can open the email on his phone and download them to his photo library.

 

[kenny]

I think what threw me was how crappy the quality level 1 looks on my 27" Retina Display iMac screen, compared to the 81 MB original where you can practically see atoms.

I was forgetting people's smartphones screens are so tiny (in comparison) that the crappy resolution is not noticeable.

 

[Rockdiamond]

Hi Kenny
I hope you won't mind a suggestion.
Use the smartphone in question to take a picture of the picture you want to share. Even on a computer screen if need be. It will be lower quality but the phone itself will take the photo in a emailable size.
Hope this helps!

 

[arkieb1]

I've done that too when I'm in a hurry I use the Iphone to literally take a photo of the pic on a computer screen, again the quality isn't that great but it's easy and fast, I do email pics to myself and then open them on the phone as well and just reduce the size when I attach them to the email.

 

[kenny]

I'm a man obsessed with quality.

I lament today.

 

[foxinsox]

The other thing you can do is to put the raw or saved images onto a cloud sharing service like Google Drive and then send your SO the link? That way you don’t have to compromise the quality and his phone can do all the image rationalisation

 

[kenny]

The other thing you can do is to put the raw or saved images onto a cloud sharing service like Google Drive and then send your SO the link? That way you don’t have to compromise the quality and his phone can do all the image rationalisation

Thanks, but I don't do cloud.

Don't trust big brother, aka big-apple.

 

[foxinsox]

Thanks, but I don't do cloud.

Don't trust big brother, aka big-apple.

Email it is then