Below are some general tips to consider when sending any attachment through e-mail, including pictures.

It is common courtesy to only send 1-5 attachments or pictures in a single e-mail. If you have more than five pictures, we suggest you post your pictures on an online site and simply send the link to that site with all your pictures or compress all the files into one file.

Reduce the size of the images and/or keep the image size small. Many times when scanning an image or taking a picture of the image, it is a large file and often takes up a lot of space. Not only does this cause longer downloads, but in some cases may even cause your e-mails to not be received because of the space taken by the pictures.

Keep the images and/or convert the images into formats supported by multiple computers. For example, all computers are capable of opening JPEG (JPG) and GIF images. Make sure the images are in one of these types of formats.