Re-Sizing pictures......surely it must be simple?!

Just bought a new Imac 21".
I tried to answer my question from the video tutorial.....but the version of I photo on the video is different to the one on my computer!
How do you re-size photos you want to send by email?
When i click on share then email, i-photo takes the photo and places it into my email body without giving me the opportunity to re-size it and it stays at 2mb to 3mb even if I subsequently change the photo size to small. In fact whatever of the 3 sizes I select, the size of the Mb stays the same.
On the video tutorial with the older (i assume) version of I-photo there was a step to re-size the photo before it was placed into the email body.
Please help because I can't be sending everybody pictures of my baby if they are over 2mb! I want to reduce them to 200kb or so.
Thanks
Joe
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Thanks Terence,
I understand what you are suggesting, and that does work, but I thought one of the main benefits of i-photo was the ability to click send email rather than opening mail then dragging the photo etc.
Also I have linked up my mail to my hotmail address, which i am finding problematic so i wont be using mail in the future and I am going to unlink my hotmail account.
What has happened to the step it shows on the video tutorial which allowed the size to be changed?
I am new to the mac and I am very disappointed with the ease and design of the functions compared to windows.I was told everything was more user friendly on a mac, but i think windows is much better. For example the trouble I have had trying to share the i-photo library with my wife's account and my account on this computer has been incredible and required two almost hour long conversations with senior mac advisers. (the first one didn't know how to do it!). Its done now, but is much simpler using shared folders on windows.
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