One of the most common reasons people send e-mail today is to share photos. But photos can be really large files. When you attach several photos to an e-mail, their combined file size can really add up, making sending and receiving e-mail slow, especially if you or some of the people you’re sending them to have a slower or unreliable Internet connection. And if you exceed your attachment size limit, you’re completely out of luck!
Fortunately, if you use Windows Live Mail (free to download here), you can easily get around this problem with the photo e-mail feature, which lets you upload the full-size photos you want to share online, and attaches smaller, thumbnail-sized versions to your e-mail, making the download size of your message much smaller. The photo e-mail contains a link for recipients to view your photos as an online slide show. And after watching the slideshow, they can then download the full-size photos they like best.
Although the photo e-mail feature has been around for several years already in Mail, we made a few recent changes to the online slide show to make it even better. We took away a lot of the dead space in the old slide show, allowing for a larger viewing area, a much cleaner presentation, and the same beautiful effects you see in all our slide shows on Windows Live Photos. The new slide show uses Microsoft Silverlight technology to match the background color to your image, so it always appears in the best light.
Take a look (click to view larger images):
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Much nicer, huh?
Hope you enjoy the updates!
Tanja
Program Manager, Windows Live Mail
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I love these new blogs when they arrive. Yippee for this update. Didn\’t even know it was coming;-) Thank you all and bless your hearts, all of you who work so hard on all of this stuff.
Stop messing around with my computer. Sometimes the desktop background is black. I did not choose a solid color. I chose a wallpaper to be my desktop background. So please fix the problem.
Thanks for this update about Windows Live Mail. The very first thing I do after I have logged on is check my e-mail in my favourite e-mail program. Hmm, might send myself a photo e-mail just so that I can check all of this out! 🙂
Nice one.
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Thanks! its these little things you guys do that make Live seem to be growing and make me keep wanting more, haha :).
HUGE Improvement! I tried it out today, before seeing this post, and my jaw opened. It was a shock to see the images display so beautifully. Nice work.
Can anyone here tell me where I can get help with my emails. The help menus did not address the problems that I am having.
I used to like "hotmail" until my account was closed for some generic reason. My age and LACK of computer skills are great so I have no chance against an entity such as Windows, but an explanation would be the decent thing to do. To make matters worst, I have no idea how to retrive my important info. —Frustrated & helpless…….
You can get help for anything to do with Windows live @ their help centre.. http://windowslivehelp.com/?lc=1033
Ryan, go to the windows live help centre for answers to your problems. They sort stuff out quickly. The address is below in my last post. 🙂 Good luck with it.
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i is very beautiful i am new to this site hope to get more beautiful pictures as time goes on.
Yesss! It\’s a great way to share photos with the new slideshow!
Great new features, but…. I have one request regarding photo quality. I uploaded the same photo to flickr and to Live gallery, and the photos look so much nicer on flickr. Of course, the size is 2x bigger, but You should do something about these smudged photos.http://cid-afe60a7130dccbfa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/November%2020/IMG|_7174.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/komatryniai/3045523153/sizes/m/in/set-72157609560675238/If You will fix this issue (even partially) and Windows Live Photo gallery will automatically rotate photos – I\’m sold to You!!!
Very cool!!! I like the new mail. Waiting for new updates!
FANTASTIC!!!! I love the new features!!!
hotmail availiability is a problem if it want to hold it\’s people….
very nice ! like the new idea, fabuloussssss !
great job!!!!!
thanks
Speaking of large files… When can we expect you to implement both FTP and WebDAV? .. without FTP (THE way to upload files) or webDAV your storage services almost entirely useless… 😦 Though I do appreciate the potential 25 gigs with skydrive and the bounty of space for photos… Now that you have a happy shiny IE8 consider a SkyDrive upload addon NOT written in evil-activex (there is no good activex).
@contra atheist:Great feedback…thanks. Consider your suggestions and feedback passed to the team.Brad W.The Windows Live team
Well, photography is an art all on it\’s own. Before t was painting or sculpting. To some photography is a way to express whether beautiful or not there are many avenues to be expressive one can sing maybe rock and roll or an aria in an opera, or on can communicate in conversation, yet I am sure that most of us would like the best quality for our photographs, a camera person on television I am sure would insist on thebest quality tools to show off is film, and I feel Silverlight would give the best overall view of my photographs.
For some reason I can no longer read my mail. I can get access to my account but when I select mail I get a blank screen! Can anybody help?
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there better not be pedo s in here
can anyone just help me this is insane
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I can\’t see my messages. advertisments have taken over. What the hell? Is there any way to fix this? Moira N. Keeley
Why does Slide show crash Explorer IE6?Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0001eb33.If upgrade is the answer you wish to state, to IE7 or 8. Sorry, I already experienced enough with the hacker in their use of the hook to the kernel. Was on the Visual Studio Team Suite beta team 2005. Saw it coming in of the hook to the kernel. Spoke up about it like many others, but they left it in anyway. Now I see the kernel being effected here of the older by something else. Anyone already got a handle on this situation? Or do I need to start a run through at the MSDN?
@ Kickapoo_Tracker:Depending on your operating system, your computer may not support Silverlight – the technology behind our slide show experience. http://silverlight/Default.html has more information (including help) on Silverlight that might solve your issue.Brad W.The Windows Live team
hmmm…
How much longer do we have to see those nasty mouth graphics on our email site!!!??????
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Silverlight FTW!
Would you please add reply function to the comments of th space entry?so that ppl will be notified for any reply they receive.
Why do you keep trying to play off old featrues as new? This is not a new feature, I have had this since the Wave 3 rolled out earlier this year. How about actually putting out actual new features and functionalit instead of playing off old rollouts.
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Is there any problem with our blog here?
I hope not…
wow!
Great, now I can look at all my pics as if they\’re in an Apple Keynote…
Thanx goodness, the blog is back in proper online…
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