Photos are suddenly small size attached to Hotmail - alternatives?

[stopintime]

  I suck at computer/web stuff, so please help me....

I have a few photos I tried to send as attachments to a Hotmail message. When I attach a 2Mb picture it turns itself into a 20-30Kb version.
This happens even if I'm well within the Hotmail limit of 10Mb. I already know Hotmail sucks, but it would be nice not having to switch accounts.

When I upload to my PhotoBucket account the pictures seem to stay their full size. Is there an easy AND understandable way to provide links to PhotoBucket for a receiver to download from there?

SomeGirl? Anyone?

[somegirl]

Find your picture in Photobucket at the resolution you want to share it at. 

Below or to the side of your image, you will see some options for "Share This Image".

Clicking on one of them will copy the link to your clipboard, then paste it into your email.

If you select the "Email & IM" option, it will bring up the photo within the Photobucket page.
If you select the "Direct Link" option, it will just bring up the photo on its own.

Hope that helps.

[stopintime]

Fantastic

I tried the Direct Link copy/paste method and I succeeded.

Thank you somegirl - you're my guru