how to save a photo as a jpeg

Question

I can no longer save photos to my laptop as jpegs. What's the problem?

Answer 1

Two questions:

1- What objects are you trying to save as .jpegs?

2- What software are you using to save these objects as .jpegs?

Answer 2

Still don't know what software you use. Different email software handles inbound photos in different ways.

For example, if you use an email client that you installed on your computer, like Microsoft Office Outlook, and you sent the photos to yourself as attachments, and the attachments were .jpegs, when you download the attachments, they will download as .jpegs.

If you sent the photos not as attachments, but as part of the message body, they are part of the message's HTML code, and you may or may not be able to separately download them.

Webmail services handle inbound photos differently. For example, GMail lets you download images that are part of the message body, and if the images were originally .jpegs, they will download as .jpegs.

The easiest way to make this work in all email clients or webmail services is to send the photos as attachments. Attachments are individual files that accompany the email message. If you attach a .jpeg, it will download as a .jpeg.

With that said, today we don't often send photos via email. Instead, we upload photos to cloud storage, like OneDrive or Google photos. You can download those photos from any computer that's connected to the internet. And you can easily send photos to friends and family by sending a link to the photo in cloud storage. That way, you can send out high resolution photos, or dozens of them, or high resolution video, to one person or to hundreds, without sending a massive email message that would probably choke your email software.

Answer 3

I'm trying to save photos that I emailed to myself. They are jpgs but when I go to save as to a folder on my laptop it only lists html and all files. I'm on Windows 10