iPhoto lets you share by email

The next time you’re browsing your iPhoto collection and feel the urge to share, take advantage of the built-in Share feature that allows you to quickly email photos from the iPhoto menu. Here’s how.

First, choose the photos you’d like to share. You may select a single photo, multiple photos or even an entire roll or rolls. But remember, this is email, so try to be frugal. It’s better to send multiple emails than a single enormous attachment that may get bounced back.

Next, select Share → Email from the menu or click the Email icon in the toolbar near the bottom.

A dialog window will open indicating the photo count and the estimated total size of your photo selections. If you’d like to reduce the size of the photos before emailing, use the pop-up menu to select from Small (240×320), Medium (640×480), Large (1280×960) or Full Size (full quality).

If you’ve been diligent about including Titles and Comments to your iPhoto collection, you can select the checkboxes to include this information, too.

Next, click the Compose button to proceed and iPhoto will open your Mac OS X Mail application and add the photos for you. If you don’t use the default email client that comes bundled with your Mac, you can setup your preferred email client in the iPhoto preferences.

Now all that’s left to do is fill in the “To:” field and click the Send button. So start sharing your photos using the iPhoto share feature.