Resize photos within Mail

HEY guys...I stil get my emails rejected on Craig's List for med. or small pics dragged into the email body of mail. So, I still need to know what a custom-sized cropped pic should measure, or in other words, how to resize an i-photo file and store it in a folder on my desktop, say, to use for email additions. Or, what program works on MAC to resize these photos.Pamela

Thanks for your valuable input, jordan!

I think Apple should add an option to control the JPEG quality (as in %). Now I have pictures which are medium sized and still the same size (in bytes) as larger pictures (as in pixels).

Yep, is new for me too ^_^ If only I'd know that before!

@russell : I was just about to comment on the low-quality (in the visible sense, not as a JPEG compression setting) too. I must admit I'd assumed it was using a system-wide re-sizing function and that iPhoto would be no better, but I guess I'd better look into that now.

To Apple Inc. : If you're sending a reduced size version of an image to someone for whatever bandwidth/storage reasons, you really don't want the image to be compromised further by some crummy resize function, so how about a fix?

Thank you! Never noticed this feature.

Photos resized in Mail are of noticably lower quality than if you choose the same size when you push the Mail button in iPhoto. I don't know why this is.

you are sooooo

S.T.U.P.I.D.

This is why sites like digg are so much better than sites like this. If this was on digg, this woul have 10 diggs... then fall off into the wasteland of stupid stories...

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if you look in the left hand corner it shows the file size reduction.

What a great tip.

It does actually resize the photos, you can see the Message size in KB at the bottom of the email too and it will update if you change the sizes...

And to clarify, this is STILL there if you use iPhoto to send images over to MAIL to email to someone, so if you say large when exporting from iPhoto, and you decide it needs to be smaller, you can still chose to make it smaller (although it won't make it BIGGER than the size you sent from iPhoto)...