How can I properly send photo via computer?

Question

I scanned a photo into my computer, and then via attachment to an email,
sent it out. The recipient said he couldn't see it(?) because it wasn't sent
in a PDF format(?).
Obviously he and I are almost totally ignorant concerning the machinations
of computer software.

How can I alter the photo into a proper format so that it can be seen at the receiving end?
Am I making any sense??...;-)

Thanks one and all

Anonym · Accepted Answer

It may be a compatibility problem, generally, the photo you scanned is saved as an image, the most used is .tiff, which can not be opened with a pdf reader like Adobe Reader, and sometimes the default image viewer cannot open .tiff either.

There are two ways:
1. you can scan the file to .pdf format if only your scanner supports PDF format and you can choose that format to save the scanned files. 

2. if your scanner does not support .pdf file, you can convert the scanned image to pdf format with a pdf creator like pdf creator lite, which i am using right now, and it is free to use. 

it is a bit late, but hope this helps anyway, good luck. if you have any more questions, please contact me :)

Pavel · Answer

Well it depends, what format is it now?
To check, right click on the photo and click properties
IT should be under "type of file"
if it says .jpg or .png then its a regular photo




You know what else it could be? When you email it, your email might have compressed the image.
And the person receiving it might need to "uncompress it"

to check if it was compressed, ask the person to right click the picture, go to properties
and if it says ".zip file" next to "type of file" then that means its compressed.


To uncompress it, they can use a free program called "7-zip"

3DSMaxinator · Answer

Another way to send an image through email is to upload it to an image hosting site, like imgur then put the link in the email.

http://imgur.com/

How can I properly send photo via computer?

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