Send Photos

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Summary: Wow! Fantastic product.
Review: I have been using SendPhotos for a few weeks and I am amazed by this software. SendPhotos has made it really enjoyable to share pictures with my family.

With this program, you don't need to be a computer expert, quite the contrary, I think that anybody can create stunning picture emails with it in no time. The best part for me? Emailing a single picture as an attachment used to create an email that was typically 500kB or more. With SendPhotos I can now send 30 pictures (yep, I've done it :) in a message and still be under 500kB. That makes it so much faster to send or receive pictures. And the recipients of my emails don't need to install any special software to see the photos.

Highly recommended.

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Summary: send photos
Review: i ordered this software and installation went every smooth. I selected a photo to send by msn mail. after pressing the send button, absolutely nothing happen. you have to start send emails back and forth or try getting someone on the phone. this software is too much trouble. i am sending it back to the company for free......

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Summary: Very Impressive!
Review: I was looking for some software to help a friend who is not a PC expert send photos by email. I found a review in the Wall Street Journal by Walter Mossberg that demonstrated this Send Photos could do the job.

I checked and found the original version on sale. However, I checked the Novatix web site and found a free download trial version and also an update: Send Photos Gold, for sale.

I tried the evaluation version - an 18MB download. Only try this if you have a broadband Internet connection! I installed it and it worked very well. I tried it first using Microsoft Outlook 2000 as my mail program. Configuring that led me to an process of installing Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects (CDO). I could not be bothered to find my MS Office CD so I took ther risk and installed it from the Novatix web site. I am always nervous about this kind of thing because Microsoft software is so complex and brittle, but so far it works and nothing else seems to have broken. The warnings about "do this at your own risk" gave me pause however.

The main point of the program is to enable "the rest of us" to email pictures easily. I was impressed that I could mail multiple high resolution photos from my digital camera and the software built a page containing compressed but still high quality images. Their compression algorithms are excellent and completely invisible.

I invited my non-expert friend to try the evaluation version. She installed it and used it with Outlook Express. Her first messages had the text but no photos which confused us. The problem was solved by closing and restarting Outlook Express and since then everything has been fine.

We tried some simple photo editing: cropping, adjusting brightness and so on. That is no problem and probably fixes 99% of all amateur photos. What a contrast in simplicity from, say, Adobe Photoshop Elements. A fine program in its way, but so complex! And this is the "simplified" version...

The other major feature is the stationery. I am old fashioned and go for the plain and simple look, but I am sure many will enjoy all the options.

Lastly we tried using it with Yahoo and Hotmail. Here Send Photos uses its own mail server to send the photos, but with a "sender" field that makes the message look like it comes from me. That's a clever solution to allow Send Photos to work with any email system, even if they are web based and use proprietary protocols. I have two concerns about this:

1. If Novatix goes out of business, their mail server will go away and that use of the program won't work any more. You'd still be able to use it with Outlook (Express) because there it uses your own mail server.

2. It seems to be possible to send photos on behalf of any user. This is because Novatix can't check the validity of an email address, nor whether I have the password for it. This seems to be dangerous and I did not see anything about it in the Send Mail otherwise excellent online help.

I heartily recommend this program for non-expert users.

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Summary: Most recipients don't get the pictures
Review: I was very disappointed in this product because, althought it does create beautiful email, less than half of the people I email it to can receive the pictures from this software. It basically renders the software useless for me. The manufacturer states on their website that this is a "very common situation." I quote from Novatix website:
"My emails don't have pictures. Is SendPhotos at fault?
This is a very common situation. You use SendPhotos to compose and send some emails, but one or more of your recipients receive emails that have no pictures in them. The area where the picture should be is either an empty box, a box with a red X, a blank space, a space with a text placeholder like [IMAGE], or just an empty area. This is not due to SendPhotos. It is due to the recipient's email viewer. There are several reason behind this problem.

The recipient's email reader doesn't know how to display HTML email. This is common in email readers published prior to 2000. The only two solutions are to replace the email reader with an newer one, or set up a free email account on Hotmail or Yahoo where the recipient can receive HTML emails.
The recipient's email reader is set to suppress the pictures in HTML email. This is a common feature in modern email readers, but is usually off by default. People use this feature to avoid seeing spam advertising, to protect themselves from porn spam, and to speed up the viewing of email. The only solution is for them to change the setting to show pictures. In most, if not all cases, once the setting is changed, when the email is reviewed it shows the pictures. In other words the setting doesn't affect the email, just how it is viewed.
The recipient's email reader takes a while to download and display the pictures. Emails with pictures are larger than normal emails and on a dialup connection it can take a while for the whole email to be downloaded. Some readers will start to display the email message and fill in the photos as they arrive.
Web based email readers sometimes reformat the email message. This is a variation on the problem. SendPhotos makes an HTML email which looks like a web page might look because it is using the same technology as browsers use to display web pages. However, when the recipient is viewing the email via a web-based email service, there is a conflict between the email content and the web page. To resolve this, all web-based email services reformat the email to display within their web page. In the process of reformatting, the email's appearance can change and the pictures can even be moved. In most cases, the pictures do show up. "


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Summary: Email photos in a quick and fun way
Review: I'm a mother of two with family out of the state and out of the country, and I'm so happy to finally have an easy way to share my photos with them. I'm not real technical and I'm still able to compose an email with photos (and comments for each one) in just a few minutes. The backgrounds ("stationery" themes) that you can pick from are fun and make me look like I really know what I'm doing! My son just got braces and minutes after we got home I sent the grandparents photos with SendPhotos, and they get to see them in their email just the way I sent them...no attachments to fiddle with...just fun pictures right in the email.

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Summary: Email photos in a quick and fun way
Review: I'm a mother of two with family out of the state and out of the country, and I'm so happy to finally have an easy way to share my photos with them. I'm not real technical and I'm still able to compose an email with photos (and comments for each one) in just a few minutes. The backgrounds ("stationery" themes) that you can pick from are fun and make me look like I really know what I'm doing! My son just got braces and minutes after we got home I sent the grandparents photos with SendPhotos, and they get to see them in their email just the way I sent them...no attachments to fiddle with...just fun pictures right in the email.

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Summary: send photos
Review: It's a Great program but 3 days after I downloaded it , it has disapeared from my hard drive. How do I download it again. I paid for it with Visa card. Who do I contact to get some help.Please E MAIL TO <[e-mail]>

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Summary: Sendphotos/novatix
Review: It's a Great program but 3 days after I downloaded it , it has disapeared from my hard drive. How do I download it again. I paid for it with Visa card. Who do I contact to get some help.Please E MAIL TO

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Summary: GREAT product for digital photos!
Review: Send Photos is the coolest product and it's so easy to use. I emailed photos of my kids to my parents using this product and it was a big hit! My parents can look at all the photos without having to open each file attachment (I emailed 8 photos). All the photos are displayed in the body of the email. The other products are too hard to use and expensive.