We send all kinds of files back and forth to clients and vendors every day -- Word documents, spreadsheets, images, PDFs -- whatever you can imagine! But the need to email photos isn't exclusive to custom media companies. We frequently send and receive electronic files with people who aren't members of a creative profession -- and of course with our friends and families. We've found that outside of the small circle of us who regularly use electronic images in the course of our business, the proliferation of point-and-shoot digital cameras has led to some bad habits as we try to share images.

Make sure you are sending your electronic images in the best way using these tips.

Volumes could be - and have been - written about the problems of moving images around the Internet, especially multiple large images and especially if you are not a professional photographer who has set up a Web site with a secure gallery.

Because many of our clients are associations or businesses whose members and employees send us photos of all sorts of events, we face the problem every day. Photos snapped with camera phones, or digital cameras set to record small, e-mail friendly images don't translate well to print.

[After the jump, read more about using Flickr as a production process tool.]

Last week I caught up with our own Summer Huggins to ask her a few questions about how she uses Flickr in anticipation of the release of a podcast she’d be featured on about the subject.

But as I prepared my interview questions, I didn’t know what to ask. What's not to understand about Flickr? You post your pictures, send the link to mom and dad, and cross your fingers that their e-mail client allows them to click on the link.