Sending a ZIPPED file

[LindaBelle]

Okay...I admit to being a computer ditz.....and I need HELP please!!!

How do I zip a flattened layout file so that I can send it via email to someone so that they can print it out???

I downloaded WinZip and tried that...with the setting of "Normal" compression, but neither my Comcast nor Yahoo account will accept it because even the zipped file is too large.

Any suggestions???

[shazzt]

If it is a flattened jpeg, zipping it probably won't reduce the size much as jpeg is already a compressed format (the way I understand it). Do you know how big the Yahoo limit is? If you do, you can use your imaging program to make a file that is just under the limit by playing with the quality.

[lvg4him]

Flatten it, make it a JPG with a quality of about 8 and send each file SEPERATELY. I PM'd you. :D I think you are trying to email both in the zipped folder. That would be huge! :D Zipping an image does not make it smaller in size. Zipping is mostly good for when you have multiple files (like in a kit) that you want to be kept in the same folder (like in a kit). The only time zipping really shrinks the size of something is text files, spreadsheets, etc. Actually, if you have RAW format, zipping would reduce the size a bit. But generally speaking, zipping layouts doesn't save any more space than non zipped layouts.

EDITED: hubby just said, compressing (i.e. zipping) a photoshop file does make it take up less space. BUT since I will not be editing the file, it is best to do as I said above - make it a jpg and send the jpegs to me in seperate emais.