Photo file sizes for emailing

Greetings
I normally take photos at the highest resolution, making for some large file sizes.
I was wondering how or if its possible to email pictures taken from the camera as a smaller file size, without having to convert/crop/manipulate the picture so that we don't fill up anyone's inbox with 50megs of photos. Especially since we have some friends still on dial up.
This is basically for the wife, who just wants to take pics off the camera and send them to friends as easily as possible without sending huge emails to people.
Hope I explained that properly.
Thanks for any input.

Hi new2mac222: It is quite easy to do actually from within iPhoto. Select the photo(s), then select the eMail Icon. The first dialog box that pops up will allow you to select the size of the files to be sent. There is also a selection box in the bottom right corner of the new eMail dialog box.
Note: These instructions based on iPhoto '08, so yours may be slightly different.
Hope this helps
Stedman

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