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Hello Ken, I am not taking you to task for transmitting a 1.8 Mbyte JPEG picture to the list (!) - I suspect it was a genuine accident and was intended for Don only? however, if you want to transmit large files on the internet, I would advise you to read up on how to save bandwidth. For example, your system transmitted not only your picture, but the white border around the picture; an area (at a rough guess) 4 times the area of the picture! I'm sure your image processing program allows you to fit a frame around the picture and crop the unwanted white border away. At a more advanced level, you transmitted the entire image which you scanned at quite a high resolutiom (about 22milliom bytes before the compression system of the JPEG format brought it down to a more manageable 1.8 million bytes. However, the picture is really only intended to be viewed on a monitor screen, and even a hi-res mode like 1280 x 1024 only contains about 1.3million pixels (say 100K after JPEG compression). And it doesn't stop there: You can save a lot of file space by converting the picture from 24bits per pixel (32000 shades of colour) to 256 bpp (256 shades. You lose some quality, but your file is 1/3 of the original size. I hope this information is of some use- I am sure that others on the list will let you know the extent of your slip-up! Regards, -- Brian Collins <[log in to unmask]>