Jpeg attachments are squished in mail

I see that there have been a few threads on this, but I still haven't found a solution that works.
When I attach jpegs to Mail messages, the recipient sees them as tiny, squished, distorted images that they can't click on. I've done what everyone suggests (plain text emails, "windows-firendly attachments," and "actual size" in the lower right-hand corner of the draft email), but recipients are still getting tiny, unusable pictures. I use my Gmail account in Mail. (This happened before and after an upgrade to Lion.) Mostly, it's PC users who get the bad photos.
I think I can avoid all this by using the web-based version of Gmail, but then why would I even have Mail? I've also heard of software called "Attachment Tamer" that's supposed to resolve exactly this problem. My email correspondents are getting annoyed with my trial and error here. Anyone have a solution?
Thank you!

No, sorry. I haven't found an answer. When I send pictures in email, I use the web-based version of GMail instead of Apple Mail. I haven't yet bought and tried Attachment Tamer, but I've read that that solves the problem, too.

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