Why won't Mail allow centered images, as they are sent?

I am on a Macbook Po using 10.8.3. My trouble is with Mail. But this has been an ongoing problem for years. I send a lot of drawings and photos via email. When I send them I frequently center them in Mail. They look great. But when I send the file the results are upredictable. I can go to my Sent box to verify, or simply ask my recipient. Some of the time the text and photo will be centered as I had formatted the message. Other times, perhaps 50% of the time, the text will be centered but the photo will be left-aligned. Each time I update my System I hope this problem is resolved. But it has never been resolved. What's up with this and can I do anything about it? Even when I have upgraded, in recent years, with an entirely new System (not migrating the old files) this problem persists. And I have noticed friends who formatted their text and photos to center have had this same issue intermittently, with photos that are left aligned when they were intended to be centered along with the text.
Thanks for any help or workarounds. I like the beauty and flexibility of designing messages with images, when the formatting can be generally trusted.

Thanks for the replies! It's true, email is not particularly reliable for formatting. And, having designed in HTML and Javascript, that's a somewhat more stable media. But as a designer wanting visual flexibility, I wish there were a dependable method, held in the more personalized but immediately visible form of email. PDFs are nice, but they require an extra click. When I receive them, myself, I do not like to have to switch apps. I might allow them to open in the background and then forget about them. And, as for links, I've read that, for example, Facebook links are rarely viewed compared to inline text on Facebook. People prefer inline viewing. In the older versions of Mail, several years ago now (I do not remember when Mail centering began malfunctioning), there was perfect consisistency in the centering function.
…Given all this, I was just writing this post to learn more about the issue, and to find out how widespread the issue is. I wouldn't have even known this were happening unless I'd asked and checked my Sent mail box. I know I am not the only one with this problem. But perhaps it is rare. In that case, it could be an issue for which a solution is possible.
Thanks again for the responses!
Laura

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