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There seems to be a number of different sorts of advice on this topic so far. All of them are great, but make the assumption that the user has the software available for all of the resizing (such as Photoshop), or is computer savvy enough to know how to do it all in the first place.

A new trend that people haven't fully taken advantage of yet is the free internet photo sharing galleries. Save your recipient's inbox the stress of a really large photo attachment. Upload the images to a free storage/sharing site like Flickr, PhotoBucket, Fotki, Kodak Gallery, or Web shots. Then all you have to do is send them a link to the gallery. Most of the sharing sites will even offer gallery sharing that allow you to invite your friends by typing in their email information.

If you are going to send your recipient an email attachment, keep in mind that jpeg file compression can ruin an image if overused. Every time you open a jpeg in Windows, it loses quality. Many professional stock sites will reject jpeg images for artifacts that result from the re-compression that takes place each time the file is opened.

If you need a software to resize the images, give Gimp a try. It's almost as powerful as Adobe Photoshop, but the key difference is that it's free. Another great free tool for quick image editing is Google's Picasa software.

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