I don't find "Imaging for Windows" on any of my machines, but Win95 and later all seem to have "Paint" in the accessories folder that will do a crude re-sizing for you. (I don't have a WinME to check.)

In Paint, you pick "IMAGE, Stretch/Skew" and set the vertical and horizontal "percents" the same, 200% x 200% to make it twice as big, or 50% x 50% to make it half as big. There doesn't appear to be a way to change the "dpi" of an image - the 72dpi 2"x3" I loaded enlarged to 72dpi 4x6. A 1.5"x2" 300 dpi enlarged to 3"x4" 300 dpi.

You can also use "IMAGE, Attributes" to enlarge the picture "frame" without changing the size of the image - i.e. add a border to make room to add stuff like titles and such without putting them on top of the image (although it's a little tricky to figure out which side of an image the border is going to come up on.)

The "IMAGE, Attributes" is also the place to look to find out what resolution the image has. With the most common monitor settings, the email programs I've looked at will display at about 72 or 75 "pixels" per inch, so if you want the picture to display 3" wide, you need it to be 3 x 72 or 216 "dots" wide. If your picture is at 300 dpi, you would resize it to 216/300 = 0.72 inches wide to get the 216 "dots" width. (300 dpi x 0.72 inches = 216 "dots.")

Another fairly simple way of "resizing" an image to send to someone is to Open Word, Insert Picture, Resize the picture to look like what you want, Click on the picture to "select" it, then Right Click and either Copy or Cut, and then paste it directly into the email. It should "look" the same size in your recipients email as it looked in Word.

Your recipient can right click it and do a "save as," but in most of the email formats I've seen, it will be saved as the displayed size but at 72 dpi - regardless of the original image resolution.

John