Hehe, okay here is what I wanted to show you on Adobe Elements.
1: Shoot some 2+ Mb pics with your DC500, load onto it, under Edit - Select All, under File - select Attach to email.
2: On this box, select Individual attachments, Big, then lastly Customize...
3: On the next box, set your email provider, then slide Quality over to Maximum, then click OK...
4: That takes you back to the previous box, so click Ok again;
5: Attached to the email draft, you should see your 2+Mb pics reduced to 1024x768 @ less than 1 Mb each. If you don't want to bulk reduce your pics to 1024x768 @ 100-200 Kb range, then maybe you'll like the under 1 Mb pics for handling, storage, etc.
You can still save your favorite pics at full resolution elsewhere, for possible print & framing, but this is a tool you may like for resizing before loading with V-boards out-of-date standards of 2 Mb max per pic. I used to know how to download from that step without emailing; can't remember at the moment, but - you can eamil to yourself, download from there - and let me know if you stumble across how to resize without emailing.