When adding picture in email message, the quality of the picture is bad when the recipient receives it

Hello,

When we are creating an email, we also would like to add a picture to
the message. When adding the picture (BMP or JPG) the picture looks
good in the original setting. however when we send the message and look
in the folder send items the picture looks bad already and looks also
bad for the recipient. It seems that outlook compresses the file a bit.
However when we open the email and save the picture the file size is
still the same as the original. We tried this with outlook 2002 and
outlook 2003, both the same problem.

Anyone any ideas? Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Jan-Willem
(E-Mail Removed)