Attaching photos to emails

I have since discovered that this problem applies only to files scanned from 35 mm colour slides, not to files scanned from black and white negatives or prints, or from files from a digital camera.

Hi dcwarner and many thanks for your response to my query - sorry it's taken me some time to respond.

Your reply prompted me to spend a bit more time checking the response of Mail to scans from different sources and, as you say, got a variety of different results depending on the source of the scan, with the best results being from colour slide and colur negative scans made by Fujichrome and Bonusprint in the days when I was still using film and got a CD back as well as the film - in these cases I was able to attach small, large/medium and actual.

Interestingly, the digital files from my Nikon D80 and Canon G12 all attach directly from Aperture 3 in all 4 sizes.

I haven't tried your workaround yet but I have found that if I export a version of any file from Aperture and save as a jpeg in Finder and then attach it to an email it can be attached in any of the 4 normal sizes!!

Thanks johnfrompontefract. As you say it works well direct from iPhoto using Share>Email and, depending on what size you choose, you then get a further choice within the email message. The problem seems to be with the use of photo browser direct from Mail which only gives thumbnail or actual in the case of scanned slides, whether from iPhoto or Aperture.

The only problem is I don't use iPhoto since I got Aperture! But following on from your suggestion I tried File>Share>Email (or using the Email button) from Aperture. In this case there is no choice of size and the file size is about one third bigger than medium from iPhoto. The big drawback here is that the photo attachment in the email has "For Review Only" printed across it several times! I have tried to get rid of this message via Aperture Preferences but to no avail!