Help emailing pictures from digital camera - they are too big?

I recently got a digital camera and having the hardest time downloading the pictures on the computer. Well I finally did it - have no idea how, but here's my problem. When I try to email the pictures to people, the picture is so large that you can't see it on the screen. Is there a way to make the pictures smaller when sending them? Thank you!!!

You guys are so smart - thanks for the great answers :)

Yes, but it requires using some form of photo-editing software.
If you can find some software that will allow you to resize the image to 480x600 that should be fine. You can go smaller if you want, but that works good for me.

Also, if you are using something like photoshop you can change the dpi (dot per inch - used for printing) to 72. That works well for all web-related stuff because the screens can't show you much more detail than that (although the newer flat screens may be able to).

Normal printing (for good quality) dpi is usually 300dpi - that should tell you the big difference in quality between printing and e-mailing. Using 72 for e-mail pix will dramatically reduce the filesize too.

any photo shop on you r computer . i have adobe ?it works great got the picture to thephotoshop and look under prorety then you can increase the pixels or decrease the pixels or go to the - as shrink your picture and save to gif or jpeg

use paint to resize them.

go to paint.
click the tab at the top that says image.
a list will come down and click the
one that says stretch/skew...
and then on the section under stretch
lower the numbers on horizontal and vertical.

set the resolution to a lower setting on the camera. You should be able to set it anywhere from 800X600pixels to 1600x1200pixels and higher. go into your camera's menu and choose the picture quality. you want.

windows photo fax viewer should work