I am using a 3.3 MP camera and the pictures look great at home. If I send them without allowing XP to shrink, they look great but are the size of billboards. If I allow XP to shrink, the pictures hit the other side with much less quality.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ski+3

Get photo editing software (something should have been included with the camera) and resize the photo to a size you like 600 - 800 or so is a good place to start and keep the quality at 300 pixcels per inch or so(if you can adjust that).

Or just reduce the picture and don't change the quality. You can also set the camera at the lower quality or size but if you want to print them you are going to have a reduced quality image to start with and it will not be as nice if you try to enlarge it.