Hi Nikonians. Thought I'd pose a question rearding email'ing photos.

Since I shoot in raw I began using ViewNX to convert them to jpeg to send in emails.

Am wondering if someone could suggest a good setting to use in order to mantain the quality and at the same time not choke the internet and te recievers in box. TIA

I also have CS5 but feel viewnx is adequate for this operation

viewnx is definitely adequate for this, although i'm not sure if there's an easier way.

in general you want to reduce the size - i find that 640 or 720 pix on the long side is usually plenty. usually a quality setting of 7 or 70 (i forget which one nx uses) is more than sufficient, and it keeps the file sizes down. often as little as 5 (or 50) is plenty.

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can't you also just shoot RAW+JPG? Then you don't need to convert at all.

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Some email programs and servers have a size limit on attachments, so one may want a smaller an overall smaller file size. Resizing from a Jpeg may cause a loss of quality, so if one starts with the best quality image, the resizing and file format changes should cause the least amount of quality loss.

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but if you're just sending it to some one via email does it really need to be the highest possible quality? Will they be making prints or just looking at the file on their computer monitor?

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If the in camera is not the right size, then you will back to View Nx and using the save as Jpeg from a Nef allows one more control over the process than the camera. Also if one repeatedly edits a Jpeg, there is a real loss of quality and additional artifacts can be introduced.

George
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