Originally Posted by
gosha83
you can use the free software from google called Picasa to do all of that good stuff. and it's integrated with gmail as well.
100% agree on the Picasa suggestion, it does exactly what you want.
Also allows you to very easily publish pictures to a web gallery so you can send the gallery link instead of the actual pictures. This takes the load off mail servers, that often lower the priority of mail with large attachments.