The first time you send an email, add your email address and your name on the ISP SETTINGS tab in the Configuration area.

This will make your email appear as if it came directly from you, not the LumaPix Server. If your recipient replies back, their message will return to your personal email account.

After this step, you have the following options:

Picking Recipients
Click on the tab to set up your email.
If you have never sent an email to the recipient you have in mind, click on NEW to add them to the list:
 

 
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The recipient's name and email address will be saved in the 'recipients' list to make it easy to send mails to those people again; in the future, you can simply click on the check box in the 'recipients' list to have the email sent to them.

The Import button provides tools that attempt to import your contacts from the Microsoft Address Book into FotoFusion to avoid your having to retype known Email IDs.

To edit your list, click on the Change button

Your email list is saved as a text file in your MY COLLAGES folder (C:\My Documents\My Collages) should you need to edit the list. It can be opened with Windows Notepad for easy editing.

Editing the email message
Enter a subject line and a message text. This will appear on the subject line of your email, and as the text body of your message.

Including Original Images
Your email can contain just the collage, or it can contain the collage and scaled-down versions of all the original images that make up the collage. The latter allows the recipient of your mail to click on images in the collage and see the original images on their own:

To enable the inclusion of original images, turn on the 'Include Scaled-Down Original Images' option:

To include information about the image files you are using, turn on the 'Overlay Image Info' option:
These options can be configured under the TOOLS menu item, in the Canvas >> Overlay Image info area (or by selecting right-mouse-down outside of your canvas in the Create screen).

For Extreme users, you can specify if you want to send a multi-page email ("All Pages) or a single page ("Selected Page").

Specifying compression, image sizes, and other image options
When you click on the Image Quality tab, you will be presented with several options.

You can set the image quality used for both the collage and the attached originals, or manually enter the pixel size for the image. We suggest leaving the Default settings.

If you have set background to canvas color enabled, the color of your canvas will be used to set the email background color.

We recommend keeping the "Sharpen Reduced Images" options on at all times, to ensure your recipient will receive the best possible quality of image.

For your cropping options, change the drop-box option.
You can RENDER CANVAS ONLY will cut away anything outside of the edges of your canvas, leaving only the portion directly on the canvas. This is useful to keep on, in case you have dropped an image outside the canvas. However, leaving it off can create an interesting effect if you have elements hanging over the edge of the canvas.
You can also Render Canvas + Bleed, if one is specified (Enhanced, Extreme only) or, to display every part of every image on the Create screen canvas, select Render Canvas + Bleed + Overhang.

Crop marks will be rendered on top of your collage if you enable show crop mark. Crop marks will only display if you have set your canvas up with a bleedzone.

If you are emailing a proof to a customer, turn on the Overlay Image Info option. Learn more how to set which Exif-tags you wish to display.

 
Configuring an ISP (Optional)
An ISP is an acronym for Internet Service Provider, meaning the company which provides your internet access and often also provides you with an email address as well.

By default, mails send from FotoFusion go through the LumaPix mail server (the mails go from FotoFusion to www.LumaPix.com to the recipient, instead of going via your regular email server).

This is done as a courtesy to our trial and paid customers, to ensure that they have as smooth a demo of FotoFusion as possible; the alternative (having trial users configure their ISP settings) would result in far fewer successful mails sent by trial users, as ISP setups can be confusing.

Once users have upgraded from the trial version to a paid version of FotoFusion, they have the option of continuing to go via the LumaPix server or using their own ISP.

The advantages of using your own ISP are:
1. Much higher maximum message size (we limit mails through LumaPix.com to reasonable sizes to protect the account from overuse).
2. You own the mail pipeline from start to end.

To send email through your own ISP, check the "Send Using My Own ISP E-Mail Settings" box. Click on DETECT MY SETTINGS to automatically connect, and, if you wish, click on TEST THIS SETTING to send an email to yourself.

FotoFusion also allows Enhanced & Extreme users to watermark your images, or add a banner to them to brand your emails. You can also choose different appearances for your email by changing the theme.