E-mailing photos with Apple mail 4.3

Can some of you Mac users help me out with e-mailing my photos?
Whenever I re-size my image in Lightroom or Elements, I size them to 1024 pix wide. However, whenever I send them to my email, which is apple 4.3 version, they become re-sized much smaller. Whenever I read up on this happening all of the apple help topics say that the image should be the original size, but they definitely are not the size that the image is re-sized as.

are you adding them as an attachment or adding them to the body of the email, if your adding them to the body this will be why they have been resized.

Thanks for the reply.
I figured it out. It really is embarrassing!
So I could see and read my mail better, my mail window would open up and fill the entire screen. This would place the small (very small) adjustment window out of my viewing site in the lower right corner. Once I re-sized my viewing screen, I was able to see that my attachments were being minimized. I now am able to make them their actual size.
Embarrassing!!

We all do it from time to time.