email photos from iPhoto via Outlook 2011 rather then mail?

it lacks the option to optimize the photo!! So you end up emailing a full sized image.

In reply to Terence Devlin's post of October 2010, I found a way to scale photos prior to the email attachments opening up in Outlook new message. Using your suggested method of creating a service in Automator there is an extra option under "Photos" for "Scale Images" and if you drag that immediately below the "Get Selected iPhoto Photos" there is a prompt to ask whether you want to add an extra step to copy the scaled photos (otherwise iPhoto will overwrite the existing photos with the scaled size versions). Select "Add" then choose the location where you want the scaled photos to be saved (you can always trash them later if you don't want them). In the Scale Images window select the No. pixels or as I preferred the % of photo size. Then in this way if you have an average digital photo size direct from camera (say around 4 to 6 MB) by selecting 30% the photo was reduced to around 300kb. You can play around with the % scale to achieve sizes more like thumbnails if you prefer. Then by adding the rest of your method (but adapting it for Outlook use) it works fine. I actually created a few different service names showing different scale percentages so I can have whatever option I want when emailing from iPhoto.

Thanks for your post as this definitely steered me on a good path.

This worked for iPhoto 11 and Outlook for Mac 2011

Yes. Detailed instructions can be found here. So easy a monkey could do it. When looking for the three files; look carefully they're hard to spot and Finder won't locate them.

http://www.cnet.com/news/fix-for-e-mailing-from-iphoto-11-using-microsoft-outloo k-2011/

PS: I've looked for this info twice (both for Macbooks, old and now new with iPhoto still not configured properly) so I thought I'd add it here because it took me a while to find this the second time (I now have it in my 'fix' files).