So you’ve been a star and have scanned several high DPI TIFF and Jpeg files. But what’s this? You can’t send your scanned photo because it’s too large to attach in an email?! What do you do now?

Fear not, there is a pretty simple work-around. The reason there are email attachment limits is because there are A LOT of different email providers (@gmail.com, @yahoo.co.uk, etc). Each of these providers have different attachment limits.

For this blog-post’ sake, we’ll say your scanned photo you want restored is 20mb, if you were a Gmail user, you could attach the file no problem, but if you were to send it to a friend, relative or a certain professor who has roots in the photo restoration field, you may have problems, as your friends and relatives may have smaller attachment sizes, and they will not receive the photo. Luckily, The Prof’s super email system is powered by Gmail, so feel free to send along your big photos!

So what do you do, you’re stuck in a rut with big photo files and don’t know where to turn. Luckily for you and your lovely photographs, there is a way around.

There are websites out there that allow you to upload your big files [photos], and in a nutshell, you can share the download location with anyone. There are many sites competing with each other, many have different size allowances. You could upload a 2GB file, although if you have a photo file at 2gb, you must be using NASA’s scanners, if so, please write to ‘Photo Restoration Prof. , 12 Sycamore drive…..’

Here are some of my favourite sites for you to use:

http://www.2shared.com/
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.filefactory.com/ 

All you have to do, is upload, select the file(s) you want to upload, and off you go. These sites will provide you with a download link. If you were looking to send them along to us, just email the link to us! We just download the files, and get to work.

It’s not without it’s security, you can even specify a password for your download, in the super rare event of someone else getting your download link, it will be useless as they do not have a password, and they won’t see your photos of old locomotives!

All files are supported, so if your photos are Jpegs, Tiffs, PDFS, BMPS, it’s no problem, as these sites can cater to any file type.

That’s it! Choose a site, find your photos, upload them and share the link. No more email attachment troubles. You can finally get those photos repaired!

If you’re a real clever clogs and have mastered .ZIP files, you can also upload your files to these sites and share them. So if you have lots of images, you can compress them down into one .ZIP file and send them. It beats sending them one by one. Now wouldn’t that be a pain?