Upgrade from 4.0.3 to 5.0 or 6.0? And how to reduce size of photo?

Question

I am using an old iMac installed with Mac OS 10.3.9 and iPhoto 4.0. If I want to upgrade to iPhoto 5.0 or 6.0, can i do it using the current OS? And is it free like iTunes upgrade?
I also need to reduce the size of a pic from several hundred KBytes to 50KBytes. How can I do it? I don't have Photoshop or any similar stuff?
ALBERT
Hong Kong

Answer 1

iPhoto is part the "iLife" package.
To get the current version of iPhoto requires that you update/upgrade to the iLife 06 package.
To reduce the size of a picture, you can do this:
In iPhoto, select the picture(s) you want to scale down (reduce file size).
Click on the "email" button at the bottom of the iPhoto window.
iPhoto will ask what size you want them to be (S, M, L), and them paste them into a new email document for sending.
If you don't WANT to send an email, just save it as a Draft email, and save it for later.
You can then drag the pictures form the email document to your desktop, or to any other folder when you want them.
You can also save copies with the ave email attachment command in the iPhoto main menu (I believe true for most versions).
good luck!
db