jpg as an email newsletter?

leepster

New Member
unfortunately, I already put a lot of time and effort to designing a jpg in adobe photoshop without looking into what the format should be as an email newsletter. But is there anyone who can help me how to put a jpg in the body of the email and not attached? and i'm not looking into putting a link in the body either. any suggestions? :confused:
 

leepster

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i've come to a conclusion that i have to just put the whole thing in html. i want to recreate it in the same way but can i do that?
 

Edge

Member
If you created it in Photoshop, presumably you have the source .psd file. Open that source .psd file in Fireworks (if you don't have FW tough!). Then using the slice tool, section of the images from the text. Next, export to HTML. Open up the HTML doc in whatever editor you use for HTML. You have a bunch of sliced images held together by a table. Delete the images with the text in and then type in the real text. You end up with a mixture of text and images. Put the images on your server and adjust all the links to images so that email is not trying to pull in images on your local machine. Make sure there are no styles in the head and all styles are inline. Play around with widths so email looks OK on smartphones. You now have an html email with a mixture of images and text, that will perform well across most email platforms and look perfect inside everyone's junk folder.
 

leepster

New Member
If you created it in Photoshop, presumably you have the source .psd file. Open that source .psd file in Fireworks (if you don't have FW tough!). Then using the slice tool, section of the images from the text. Next, export to HTML. Open up the HTML doc in whatever editor you use for HTML. You have a bunch of sliced images held together by a table. Delete the images with the text in and then type in the real text. You end up with a mixture of text and images. Put the images on your server and adjust all the links to images so that email is not trying to pull in images on your local machine. Make sure there are no styles in the head and all styles are inline. Play around with widths so email looks OK on smartphones. You now have an html email with a mixture of images and text, that will perform well across most email platforms and look perfect inside everyone's junk folder.

Thank you for your help! The information really helped me on fixing the newsletter. I have Fireworks so I used that for the first part and used Dreamweaver for the html edit part. It took me awhile but I got it!
 

Hazey Coder

New Member
Using just an image as your newsletter is the easiest way to have it flagged as spam. You need the actual content in there.

-Hazey
 
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