Emailing photos from Macbook

Hi, I hope you can help me.
I am still getting my head around a Mac, after coming 'over' from Windows. Now i have a problem.
I was emailing photos to family that are stored in my iphoto libary with my gmail account. Anyway they cant open the photos, obviously as they have Windows and not a Mac.
Is there around this? I have found out via this community that i can export photos to a disc for a Windows user to open on their computer, so i am hoping you all can help me with this query.
Thanks in advance
Nic

My answer presumes you are using Apple iPhoto to store these pictures, and Apple Mail to send them. If this is not the case, this is not an Apple problem at all.
iPhoto pictures are stored as .jpg I do not know how you get .png out of iPhoto. If this is coming off some google site, it is a google problem not a Mac problem.
When using Apple Mail to send Mail, you type the Address information into the header and type any text in the body of the email, then click the "Attach" Icon. In the Dialog box that opens, you select where on your Mac this Mac file is stored, and you get a checkbox under the list of filenames:
[ ] Send Windows-Friendly Attachments.
If you are not using Apple Mail, this is not an Apple problem, it is a problem with whatever mail program you are using.
Macs are inherently very compatible with Windows, and most users find that the problems they have with compatibility are caused by Windows Operator Error, not flaws in their Mac.

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