# Send Images

Gilles
Caulier

    caulier dot gilles at gmail dot com

Gerhard
Kulzer

    gerhard_at_kulzer.net

The Kipi Send Images plugin is a tool for sending images directly by e-mail.

KDE
Kipi

# Introduction

With this Kipi-plugin you can e-mail the selected images with your favorite e-mail agent. Resizing images is possible. You can use drag and drop to add more images to the list of images to send.

## Image Selection Dialog

When opening the plugin from the host application, the Images window will appear with your pre-selected images already in the list of images to be sent. The Add Images button opens a file browser to add more files as needed in the usual file selection manner. The image under the cursor in the list is displayed on the right side.

You can drag and drop images between the host application window and the image file list to add new items to e-mail.

When clicking on the second button Remove Images the selected images (highlighted in the list) will be removed from the send list.

When you have finished selecting your files, click OK to open the New E-mail dialog window of your favorite e-mail client. You just need to add the addressee and the subject. The selected images will be already be listed as attachments.

Be sure not to overload your own or your addressees e-mail transmission limit; most providers limit the e-mail size to some megabytes of data. Use several e-mails if you want to send a lot of data.

### The Image Selection Dialog

## Mail Dialog

The mail dialog is used to change the settings of the images to be sent. These settings will be remembered when you close the plugin until you change them.

Select your favorite e-mail client from the drop-down menu. (If you use Thunderbird, the field below will be available to select the correct path according to your installation).

If you want to use the GMail service, you need to install GMailAgent in your computer, available at this &URL;.

If you select Add Comments in the Attached File the comments included with the images will be merged to a text file and attached in the mail.

The next three items allow you to set-up the image quality to be sent. Select one of those. The New Images Compression ratio can be chosen with the slider or the value box. 75% is the standard compression ratio for JPEG files. Setting compression to 100% will result in lossless compression at the cost of the largest file size. The difference in file size between 90% and 100% can be quite dramatic, whereas the gain in quality is minor. Very good quality is already obtained with 85% compression.

The PNG format in the New Images Format drop-down menu is not well adapted to reduce photographic images file size, but is best suited for compressing lossless items like the TIFF file format. PNG must be used if you use dialup speed Internet and you want to preserve the photo quality. Otherwise, JPEG is the recommended format.

If you choose JPEG as the New Images Format and the original files were in JPEG format, the original Exif data included is preserved in e-mailed images.

### The Mail Dialog

## E-mail Images in Action

A progress dialog gives you feedback on the progress of your operation. Press the Cancel button during this stage if you want to abort the process.

When all jobs are completed, this dialog will not close automatically and you can consult the progress messages if any errors occured during this stage. The mail agent will be started automatically at the end. Press the Close button to close this dialog.

### The E-mail Images Plugin in Action