London, UK Is there an add-on that will compress photos? The add-on I have just downloaded was unable to do that.
I have just downloaded the compression add-on that was shown in the list of available add-ons for Thunderbird. I tried to compress a large photo file in a test email and the add-on did not recognise the file type. It was a JPG file of 4.38 MB. I have problems sending files of this size, which are not always welcome, and when I do send one it then has problems being transferred to my Sent file. I used to use Picasa which had an option to send photos directly (i.e. not attached to an email) in different sizes, but Picasa is now no longer supported and Google Photos does not have this useful feature.
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how do I add a link to a Google photo to a Thunderbird email message
Look at the sharing option of Google Photos. One of them is creating a link. Create the link, and copy it to the email body text. Pretty simple.
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JPEG files are already compressed. Compression tools such as zip or rar can actually make the file bigger, since they can't improve on the inherent compression and add their own overheads.
The tools I know of for use in Thunderbird will resize an image. This is fine for web/email purposes, but of course will degrade an image intended for high resolution use.
If you're having trouble sending a large file as an email attachment, then look into the options for sending it via a third party such as DropBox. Thunderbird itself would normally prompt you to use its filelink ability when it sees a large attachment.
Or you can post your image file to one of the many image-sharing sites (imgur, imageshack etc), and send its URL to your correspondent.
Google Photos does not have this useful feature.
Why don't you upload your photos to Google Photos, and then share them with the intended recipients? That could be a link sent in an email.
Many thanks for both your responses. Zenos - I am sorry if I got the terminology wrong but resizing is the correct word. I am happy to accept that I will be sending lower res images and it would be helpful if you could send me the names or details of the tools you know of for use in Thunderbird that will resize an image. I would prefer to do that than get involved with more image-sharing sites. Christ1 - My photos are already in Google Photos, but Google appears to give me a very limited capability to send a message with a photo. It is my ignorance but how do I add a link to a Google photo to a Thunderbird email message rather than adding a large photo file? Many thanks for your help.
I am using this one, in TB52.9.0:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/auto-resize-image/
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how do I add a link to a Google photo to a Thunderbird email message
Look at the sharing option of Google Photos. One of them is creating a link. Create the link, and copy it to the email body text. Pretty simple.
I have already successfully used the link suggested by christ1 (for which many thanks) but have not quite cracked Zenos's suggestion. I have downloaded the resize add-on but I now cannot see how to access and use it. I did earlier download a compression facility and that shows in my Thunderbird toolbar, but I could not find the resize add-on when I wanted to send a test photo. It did not appear in my toolbar. I would also now like to delete the compression add-on but that seems problematical too! Sorry for my slow uptake!