Photo File Sizes & Formats in iPhoto 6

I have iPhoto 4. I tried importing 3 files of 270 MB each. iPhoto imported one, but choked on the other two. I then tried importing one of the "rejects," but the result was the same. I read, somewhere, that iPhoto can't handle file sizes of more than 20MB. Is this true of iP 6?
Also, I've read that iP can only manage .jpg files. The 3 files I tried to import are .tif files. So, can iP 6 manage .tif files?
I'm unhappy with iPhoto's automatic organization features & other issues & thought of upgrading to iP 6, but if it can't handle those file sizes & .tif, at least, I need to look for another image manager.

Alexandra:
iPhoto 6 now has the option, in it's Advanced Preferences pane, of not copying files into its library folder but only using alias files, small files that point to the location of the original files. I've created several Tutorials to assist users in converting over to an alias based library.
Moving the library to an alternate volume is very easy to do. Just copy it intact to that volume, making sure ownership and permissions are correct on the volume, and the launch iPhoto with the Option key depressed. You'll then be given an option to create a new library or find the current one. Navigate to the new volume and select the moved library. Once you're sure it's working correctly you can delete the one in your User/Pictures folder.
The alias system lets a PB user put the source files on an external volume and operate normally. If the PB goes traveling then you will be limited to viewing just the thumbnails up to a certain size, adding comments and keywords (with the Command-I info pane), creating and moving albums. You won't be able to edit, view slideshows, move photos to albums, etc. Any photo you've edited while the volume was mounted will be viewable in full with the volume unmounted as the edited version is saved in full in the library on the PB.
iPhoto is compatible with tiff, psd, gif, jpg, .mov video files, png, bmp, and more.
To save a photo to another format you will have to export out of iPhoto. Any keywords added in iPhoto will not go with it as they are written to a data file and not the file itself. Most of the EXIF data from a camera is saved, at least when converted to a tiff file. This ISO speed and lens data is lost. Conversion to png format does lose all of the EXIF data.

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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.
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