Reducing photo data size

I have photo's in my library that I wish to email to various people. the typical data size is 900 kb to 1.5 mb. I want to reduce photo's down to a max of 500 kb for emailing purposes. How do I do this?

What do you use to email?
If you use Apple's Mail you can email from within iPhoto and resize the pics in the process. You can do this with Entourage, Eudora and AOL as well.
Otherwise, select the pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. In the resulting dialogue you have the option to resize. Then complete the export to the desktop and email the pics from there. After you've emailed them, you can trash the pics on the desktop, they're only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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Question asked and answered several times.
Adjust the picture files to fit your needs before inserting them in a Pages document.
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build a draft document in which I insert the original pictures (tiff or png)
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Reducing Photo File Size

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