Oh Dear.

Refer back to the post by haironfire. Drag any photos you want to email from iPhoto to the Mail icon and a new mail message will open containing the photos. Then click on the Image Size button on the lower right and choose your size (small, medium, large or actual size).

If that doesn't suit your needs, drag the photos to Resizeit from http://homepage.mac.com/nsekine/SYW/...eit/index.html (works fine in Snow Leopard), or a similar application, and save them to a selected folder at a size of your choosing.

Quick and simple, and either way, you retain your iPhoto pictures at their original resolution.

Why in the world would you want to make another folder and another copy of all those photos just to send in emails when resizing is done for you with the click of a button in both Mail and iPhoto. When you get over the idea of sorting in folders and start to use your Mac like a Mac and not a Windows machine you will discover the real power of iPhoto.

Once more, with feeling:

In iPhoto, you press the "Mail" button, and set the size you want.

You don't need to keep an archive of "email size" pictures. This is why we use Macs.

It's like asking how to make fire, because you want a cup of coffee. Don't make fire. Just use a kettle.

How to Use Quicksilver to Re-scale Photos and Images. If you don't have Quicksilver, get it. Every Mac user (running 10.4 or later) should have this in their arsenal.

I believe you can do all these things in iPhoto now.
Maybe it is labeled different that you expect.

* You can export a photo (or album) to any size / format you want
* You can edit > crop a large photo to highlight certain elements
* You can share an album or your whole library either by email, creating a web site, or several other means.

From you list above, it seems like that should do the trick. However, if you are more comfortable with the PC editor work flow, why not just do it there anyway?

iPhoto Solution?
 

Anyone use Aperture? Sounds by what everyone is talking about is solved by using Aperture. Reducing size, fixing, using in emails, categorizing, etc.
:)