Send Photos

by Novatix

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008P7EJ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 28, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,295 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #43 in Software > Business & Office > Communication > E-mail
  • #94 in Software > Graphics > Image Capture

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

SendPhotos is the easiest and fastest way to share your photos with friends and family through email. It allows users of all skill levels to quickly create spectacular, fun and professional picture emails in just a few easy steps with easy to follow menus and step-by-step instructions. With SendPhotos, your pictures get sent and received up to 25 times faster than if you had attached your pictures as e-mail attachments. The photos and descriptions are embedded in the e-mail so everything is easy to read, easy to find. This program not only integrates with the popular Outlook 2000/XP and Outlook Express email clients, it also provides an intuitive and convenient email interface for users of other email programs such as AOL, Eudora, Netscape, Hotmail, or Yahoo. It even allows you to import your Yahoo or Hotmail address books. It includes more than 50 stationery designs appropriate for a wide-array of occasions, such as holidays, vacations, new babies, sports, hobbies, etc. Additional stationery designs are being added regularly and are available free for download from the SendPhotos Gallery.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Impressive!, July 25, 2003

By 

Ian J. Fuller "Ian Fuller" (Bangkok, Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Send Photos (CD-ROM)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Email photos in a quick and fun way, March 4, 2003

By 

"jennifer030761" (Doylestown, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Send Photos (CD-ROM)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Fantastic product., March 4, 2003

By 

"mk332" (Boulder, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Send Photos (CD-ROM)

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.