One thing a lot of people want to know, but have a hard time figuring out, is how to email their photos to friends and family. It is fairly easy to attach a photo to an email, but ISP's email systems limit the file size of photos, so unless you resize them, you are likely to plug up the recipient's inbox and fail to send the photo. Mainly our goal here is to resize the photo so they can be sent, but I'll go over how to actually send the photos as well. I'll show you how to this with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements. First with Adobe Photoshop. I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3, so your screen may not look exactly the same if you don't have the same versions.

The first thing we want to do is open the photo we want to resize and email later. To do this, we go to the "File" menu and scroll down and left-click on "Open."



A dialog box, like below, will open up. You need to browse to the photo you want to open on your hard drive(s). You can pull down the menu at the top where it says "Look in: and find the drive it is on. When you find the photo you wish to open, just double-click on it to open it or left click once to highlight it and click "Open."



Optionally, you can open your photo in Photoshop by using Windows Explorer. Just go to the photo you want to open, right-click and select "Edit with Photoshop."



Our photo is now open and ready to be resized.