Transferring RAW photos to Iphoto

I know this has been asked a lot before, but there's an ocean of variations of answers out there. I can't make any sense out of it so I'm hoping somebody can give me a fundamental answer without overwhelming me with hi-tech stuff.
I have a Canon EOS Rebel T2i. It comes with their software for downloading and importing the photos but it won't send them to Iphoto. I tried to download the photos using Iphoto. I noticed they preview them first. However, these photos are very large files (RAW in camera). I tested one photo in a transfer to Iphoto and it is a .jpeg but it is 5.5MB too. That seems too large to store in Iphoto, and if I download all 250 photos I will surely fiill my HD space on my computer.
Isn't there a simple way to download these pictures as smaller files to Iphoto? Or do I have to download a few at a time and resize them one by one? If that is the case, then some "hi-tech" thinker out there is not so bright. I just want to download my family photos to Iphoto and share them but 5.5mb is too big to send out.

When iPhoto imports a RAW file it creates a JPEG preview file for iPhoto to use to display in thumbnails, slideshows, etc. RAW files are just sensor dumps from the camera's image sensor and need to be processed before they can be viewed. That's what the preview files are for. When you edit a RAW file the edit must be saved as a new, jpeg or tiff file leaving the RAW file untouched.
To reduce the file size for sharing export the files out of iPhoto via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option. Select Kind = JPEG. The file size is determined by the Quality setting (i.e. JPEG compression). Large is usually only a big smaller than the original file. Medium is about 40% smaller. I'm referring to the file size here and not the image size. The image size will remain the same size in pixels as the original.
If you want to reduce the pixel dimension of the exported photos set the Size option to the maximum dimension (width or length) you want.
OT

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