Hi everyone:
     I found this while poking around and was able to  shrink a 1.75 mb image
to 64 kb without any visible loss of resolution.

Emailing Photos
One of my pet  peeves is digital photo bloat and this is especially true when
it comes to  emailing photos. There is no point in sending "just to see"
photos of a larger  viewing size than a normal computer screen - it's just
annoying. These images  should be reduced in both pixel dimensions and computer file
size. Some of you  will have software that came with your camera that will
automatically do this  for you. Others will have to rely on separate photo
software. My recommendation  for emailing size is a photo with a horizontal
dimension of about 800 pixels and  a JPEG compression of between 35 to 50%. My
favourite program to change digital  photos for emailing is Breezebrowser, but I'll
outline procedure for Windows XP,  Adobe Photoshop and Irfanview as well:

Windows XP
    1.  You will first have to download and install Microsoft's Image Resizer
 Powertoy for Windows XP:
_www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx_
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx)
    2.  Open up a view of your images using Windows Explorer or My Computer
    3.  Select the image(s) you wish to resize
    4.  RIGHT mouse click on the selected images
    5.  In the dialog box that pops up, choose "Resize Pictures"
    6.  Choose the size you want and click OK
    7.  Copies of you new resized images (with a size ( ) in the filename)
will  appear in the folder with your other images