Screen Captures shrinking in Mail

I use the feature a lot, taking snap of a portion of the screen, and dropping it in an email to send to someone, but recently whilst the screen capture is fine, when its dropped in an email, it shrinks!
To to point where its unreadable.
Dropping the image back from the email to the desktop confirms it...all detail has been taken out of it. The original screen capture is fine, but the mail effected one is useless.
Have I missed a wonderful new feature of Mail or OS X thats happened on some update??
Any answers anyone??? Is it a preference setting? Cause this is a major pain!

Bottom right corner of your new email message window is a dropdown for sizing
attachments. Choose large or full size(original?).

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> Maybe I should explain that when I do the screen
captures at first, my
> monitor
> is set at 1600X1200.
> Should I set it at 800X600 when doing the captures
first?
A screen capture captures whatever number of pixels you are
grabbing. If
your monitor is 1600x1200 and you capture the entire screen,
then the
resolution you have captures is 1600x1200.
Then two things are happening:
1) you are making it a JPG, which is lossy compresion
2) you are shrinking it to 800 x 600.
To shrink it, Flash has to 'throw away' 75% of the pixels of
the original.
So, no matter what, you are ending up with a lower resolution
image than
what you started with.
> 1. Should I do the captures with the monitor set at
800X600 if the Flash
> stage
> is 800X600? If so, why?
That would make sense. Why? You can only show 800x600 pixels
in your final
presentation. What's the point of capturing more than that?
> 2. If the projector resolution is 800X600, can I set my
Flash stage at a
> higher size [resolution], say 1024X768? Will that
actually affect the
> resolution when the Flash movie is projected on a
projector with an
> 800X600
> resolution if the Flash movie stage is larger?
If the images are that resolution, then yes, if you increase
the size of the
flash file, you should be able to see all of the pixels at
that particular
resolution.
> 3. What affects the final resolution output of the BMP
images [jpeg's] in
> Flash for a presentation like I am doing?
As long as you bring the images in at 100%, the available
resolution of the
images shouldn't change at all.
> 4. What size should I capture the images at so I don't
have to resize them
> in
> Flash?
'Actual' size.
> WHAH! I just want this presentation to be successful.
It's a training
> session
> on educating folks on computer virus
prevention/protection from and ID
> theft,
> something this world is in dire need of!
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product like
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