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[deathvalley]

being totally un-technical, can anyone tell me how i can send photos from my web cam to peoples e-mail addresses or forums please. :thumbs:

[Miss Understood]

DV, I need to know this question first:

Are the pictures already stored on the hard drive of your computer?

[deathvalley]

hi miss understood
yes they are. any help?????? :banghead:

[Miss Understood]

OK, are they in the form of 'still' files such as a .jpg? What email package do you use?

[deathvalley]

yep they are stills and we use outlook express.
apologise for my ignorance.

[Miss Understood]

OK, to send a picture to another person's email address.

Open up outlook express. Click on 'new' for a new email message. Type in the email address, title and any message.

On the tool bar next to the 'send' button, there should be a little paper clip. Click on that.
You'll then get a file browser window pop up.
Use this to navigate to the directory where the picture you want to send lives.
Click on the actual file name so it is highlighted and then click 'insert' on the file browser pop up window.
The file will then get attached to the email.

Click 'send' and Bob's your uncle/aunty depending upon his sexual persuasion (oops sorry if that's non-PC!)

If you find the picture takes ages to send because of its size, then let me know and I have a tip or two to help you reduce the size of it.

Posting it to other forums is a tad trickier. It depends on the forum and the mechanism they have for inserting pictures. I know this forum needs the picture to be somewhere on the www first.

Let me know how you get on.

MU

[deathvalley]

very many thanks, will give it a go and let you know. :thumbs: