Reducing Photo Resolution in Mail

On my Mac, when I select a set of photos to email I'm given a choice of resolutions: small, medium, large, actual. I can't find anything similar on the iPad.
It's completely impractical to send full resolution photos in email. The Photos app won't let me select more than 5 photos to email because it knows that the email will be HUGE!
Any hints on how to deal with this problem?

Posts in the online help wind up in the forums as well. I answered the first one, so I'll lock this one.
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The problem remains unresolved. I followed your recommended procedure and got the same bizarre result!
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When I try to attach a photo from photos app to mail app, the photo size is reduced, even 'ACUTAL SIZE' is selected in mail app.
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I made a mistake, sorry. I meant something different than I wrote.
When you share the photo from Photos to Mail, there are no quality settings in the Share dialog at all. The email window will only have the the options "Actual size", "Large", "medium", .... but no compression settings.
Actual size send the actual pixel size. But it is not clear, how badly the quality will be reduced by the compression.
That is why I compared the result to the file sizes that I get, when I use "File > Export", where I can select the quality.
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My iPad / iCloud settings are to store the higher quality original photo in iCloud while the iPad automatically, in the background, makes a second smaller version for local storage optimised for the iPad. This is a setting on the iPad. Does this function still apply when I import from a computer?

I read that if I use the Camera Connection Kit to load photos directly from my camera to the iPad, that the iPad "modifies/reduces" the resolution of the jpeg (if they were taken with a high res camera).
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I'm stumped ... how do I reduce the size of photos for e-mail?

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