Using iPhoto&Cloud to send photos but...

I feel like such a nitwit but Mt Lion and Cloud have me struggling at every turn.
Just now I had some photos on my Canon Xti digital camera and connected it to my new iMac. Uploaded the contents, then in iPhoto tried to group about a dozen of the photos, putting them into an album. Fine, no problem. Ive done this many times before. But...before Mt Lion and iCloud.
I simply want to make this album of photos available to some friends, available for viewing and downloading if they want. So I click on the Album, then Share icon in lower right corner, then select email. OK except that I now have an open Mail window and it tells me the message size is 4.56 MB for 26 photos. Is this correct? I mean, I am using iPhoto to do this rather than attaching all these photos to an email and sending that way because I know it would be too much to send via email for most people. But this does not seem any different. Am I getting this right? And if it is, how do I know? That is, how do I look into my iCloud and see what is there, what's been send, etc.
I know this sounds ridiclously newbie-ish and as if I have not bothered to read up, but I am not a newbie, I have read up but the actual things that happen; that I am presented with as I try to do something simple like this, are never explained or made clear.
There are so kmany assumptions such as, go to your iCloud account and view such and such. There are very many intermediate steps left out.
So, in short, where is this album on my piece of the cloud? And how do I access it and make it clear to others how thay can access it?

Create either a public or shared Photo Stream in iPhoto and publish it.  Here's how:
If it's a public PS they will receive an email like this:
If it's a private PS the email will be this:
Note the circled text in each screenshot.
OT

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