Most digital cameras are set to save photos in file sizes that
are  too big to be sent  by e-mail


*** Solution ***

Download Picasa using the web site below

For users of the Gnu/Linux operating system  
p http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html#picasa30p

For users of that other operating system(micro$oft)
http://picasa.google.com/index.html#

Editing photos with Picasa is easy -
and it is possible to shrink photos using this software


Ideally photos should not be much more than about 400 kbs

my  e-mail address for this website is dewi44@googlemail.com