Emailing smaller photos, despite selecting actual size in iphoto and mail

Everytime I select to email a photo from iphoto, and select actual sized in both iphoto and apple mail program it makes it smaller. I looked at every preference i could find and dont see what is making it do this. It is not do to the size i can send out throught the server. Even small picture files are made smaller.

The relationship between the quality of an image and the file size is quite complicated. You can have a very large image that's as blurry as all get out, you can have quite a small one that's sharp as a tack.
What do you want to do with these photos? Further editing in a lossless editor? File size is not so important. Editing in a lossy editor, file size is important. Screen display? Unimportant. Printing? Quite important and so on.
Remember too, iPhoto exports photos and puts them into files. You can alter the level of compression applied to jpegs, or export to a different format altogether, using the File -> Export dialogue.
The key question is what you want to do with the photos.

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Need more information before I can provide an answer to your question.
1. Does this only happen with photos and not other attachements?
2. How big are the photos?
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3a. What is the application and version you are running if standalone application?
4. Does other photos stored locally on your computer open up slowly?
5. When the photo is opening slowly, does other aspects of your computer act slow? (e.g opening another web address)
6. Who is your email provider?
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