windows: send directory of images one per email

[Jeff]

Is there an easy way from a windows PC to send a directory of images (e.g. 50) either one per email or x-number per email to a specific recpient?

[Randall]

Is there an easy way from a windows PC to send a directory of images (e.g. 50) either one per email or x-number per email to a specific recpient? Sounds like a job for a script, maybe using the PHP CLI?

Randall

[Mandi]

I might not be understanding the scope of your project, but if I right click on a .zip file (or compressed archive type of your choice, which could contain all of the images) one of the options under Send To, is Mail Recipient. Or rather, it would be, if I did not habitually hack that out upon Windows setup, LOL! But I know it's there by default . . . is that not what you hope to accomplish?

[Jeff]

The two goals that I'm finding sometimes come up are:
1.) sending images to a client who wants to then quickly pick and forward select images to another party (where it's easiest if I could keep it one image per email so they can just delete the ones they don't like and click forward on the ones they do), and
2.) sending higher resolution images where I want to keep the size per email under 10 MB including encoding which means just a few images per email.

[Andilinks]

Can you put the different selections of images on web pages where a right click can give an "Email picture..." option? Or the client could list their picks by number and forward the link, or return it to you where you could delete the rejects. If it's a very big project I can see how that might be prohibitive. An "email this page" link might make the forwarding easier.

Maybe there's a way to have different pages displaying different arrays, maybe with comment inputs for each pic.

Though a zip file like Mandi suggested would work, files can be deleted from the zip before it's forwarded.

[Buck]

Hmm, on a Mac, that would be the .Mac (.Me?) web galleries along with iPhoto. I capture the images form my camera into iPhoto, then create a Web Gallery based on those pictures. I can give anyone access or restrict access, and they download or not, and upload or not. And I can send them an e-mail invite to view the album.

But that's not a PC, that's a Mac. ;)

-Doesn't Filemaker Pro offer that sort of functionality, too? I thought it did...

[Mandi]

I don't know about Filemaker Pro, but Picasa certainly integrates with Picasa Web like that.

[Randall]

Yes, an online photo sharing service that lets you restrict access on a photo-by-photo basis might be the best way to go. (Could be as simple as a randomized URL.) Safer than emailing a hi-res file, and if you expect to send the same photo to other people, you only have to upload it once.

Randall

[Mandi]

Picasa Web lets you restrict on an album-album basis (public vs. private) - and the private is only as private as the randomized URL it generates, it's not actually user-restricted. The private albums don't show if someone clicks up to the "show all albums" level either.