Jen all you have to do is right click on the picture and click Send To then Mail Recipient. I email it to myself and then save the attachments on my desktop. When you click Mail To Recipient it will ask you have want to make your images smaller and click yes. It makes them very small about 25-75kb. That's how I do all my images. Plus if you wanted to send images to your family and they have dial up, it won't take forever for them to load the pics.
Hope that helps!