Reducing Resolution--not size--of photos

i am involved with animal rescue and send out a lot of photos.
i know how to resize them in iphoto but sometimes i just want to reduce the resolution, not the actual size of the photos, because a lot of people on my distribution list still use dialup and it takes them forever to download large attachments.
is it possible to reduce the resolution without the size in iphoto5 and, if so, how?
thanx.

Hi Jane,
You want to reduce the file size, which reduces the quality in order to email and for the web. iPhoto will not do that, but other graphic programs will.
If you don't a couple of extra steps, you can drag the photos to the desktop right from the library window. Select all, then use a little handy contextual menu item to batch resize. You can keep the same dimensions, but reduce the quality to make the file sizes smaller.
PhotoToolCM

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