How to Send Full Size Photos or Pictures with Windows Live (MSN) Hotmail

In Windows Live Hotmail (previously known as MSN Hotmail) email service, there is an useful and convenient feature to attach photos, pictures, images and graphics to the e-mail where users can view and browse the thumbnails of the photos, select multiple photos or pictures as email attachments to upload at one go, and even apply caption title, rotate, edit, crop, adjust brightness, increase or decrease contrast on the photos or pictures.

Attach Photo in Windows Live HotmailHowever, the images attached as photos by using “Attach: Photo” button are reduced in size to a maximum of 600 pixels wide or tall. Thus, the photos appear to be very small when viewers open the file in the mail upon reaching the recipients’ mailboxes’ inbox. However, it’s still possible to upload full-size full resolution photos and pictures via email at MSN Windows Live Hotmail.

Attach File in Windows Live HotmailThe trick is to use “Attach: File” instead of “Attach: Photo” to upload and attach the photos, pictures or images to the e-mail. If you’re already at the photo selecting, editing and attaching interface, click on “Cancel” button at the top left corner under Windows Live logo, and continue to click on “Attach:”, and then “File” attach the photo as file to send it in full size and resolution, as long as maximum attachment size is not exceeded.

Cancel Photo Upload in Hotmail

The disadvantage of using “Attach: File” function to upload photo attachment is that users no longer able to preview the thumbnails and edit the photos at the Hotmail web interface (although it’s still possible to use Windows built-in thumbnails preview feature, and edit using external third-party programs), and users can only attach the photo one-by-one. Once a photo is finished uploading, then only users can attach another photo again.


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9 Responses to “How to Send Full Size Photos or Pictures with Windows Live (MSN) Hotmail”

  1. Glenn Rogers
    October 24th, 2008 14:51
    9

    What you describe is typical when what you’re pasting into the email is a pointer to a file on your local machine. You can see it when sent to yourself because the first exists there. Attaching a photo should work fine. Having it directly in the body of the email is trickier.

  2. John
    October 24th, 2008 10:59
    8

    Copy and paste photo, recipient does not recieve.
    hotmail:
    It used to work, not sure what has changed
    I copy and paste a photo (jpg) into the body of the email, then type a bunch of stuff. I can see the photo, send it to myself and see it, but when I send it to someone else, all they get is the red X. I even posted it to my web page, then copy and pasted it to the body, still not work. not even red X
    here it is on my web page
    http://www.advanguard.com/Images/copcarlogo.jpg

  3. Glenn Rogers
    September 30th, 2008 22:36
    7

    An easy way to include photos and captions using Hotmail is to do it via my product called DBGallery (a photo database and organizer). There is a short video on how to do it at http://grrsystems.com/dbgallery/TrainingVideos/EmailViaHotmail/EmailViaHotmail.html

  4. Ahson
    August 4th, 2008 17:03
    6

    What do u mean by captions? If you mean changes, you should try Adobe Photoshop and then attach to hotmail.com

  5. jackie
    February 22nd, 2008 01:55
    5

    My email account is with hotmail. How do I add captions to the pics I want to email. Thanks

  6. armend
    January 28th, 2008 23:07
    4

    tung

  7. armend
    January 28th, 2008 23:06
    3

    hehehe

  8. admin
    January 22nd, 2008 14:32
    2

    Try to zip the files.

  9. bob
    January 18th, 2008 21:43
    1

    how do I add more than 10 attachments to a Windows Live email?

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