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Shrinking Pictures to Send in Email

In Windows XP, click to select the photos you want to send from My Pictures or another location on your computer. After you have selected the pictures, click in the "E-mail selected items" option in the task pane. You can also right-click with the mouse and select "Send to Mail Recipient" from the pop-up menu.

In the resulting box, click the button next to "Make all my pictures smaller" and then on the link for "Show more options" to see a selection of resolutions to use for the picture attachments. Choose one and click O.K. Google's Picasa photo- management program for Windows and Linux (free to download at http://picasa.google.com) can also shrink photo attachments.

Mac OS X users have an option in the iPhoto program to reduce image sizes for e-mail. After you select pictures from your iPhoto library that you want to share, click the e-mail icon at the bottom of the window; a box will pop up asking if you'd like to shrink the image for e-mailing.