How to add photos/pictures to emails?

One more thing, I also tried using HTML to get photos/pictures into the web browser and copy pasting it into gmail or yahoomail. That way, it was there till I send it. But, in email message afterwards it disappeared.

I’ve learned another workaround. Upload your photos or pictures onto photobucket or photoshop.com or picasa, and give links in the email.

However, I’m stll wondering how others succeed to do it.

Well i don’t have Gmail or Yahoomail , but is there an icon that says attach picture/image/document . You would click on that > locate the file you wish send > click ok > click send ?

uhhh….sorry I forgot…I don’t want them in attachments…I want photos/pictures embeded within my email message. How do I do it?

You will have to send the email in HTML. By default GMail will not display them unless the receiver opts in. It will ask.

I would really advise against sending HTML e-mails. Doing them right is a art.

edit :: And getting them to work in stuff like Outlook and Eudora is hard. Really. Don’t go there.

I mean, I don’t know HTML. I just learned here for getting the images on my local computer into the web browser. I thought this would make it, but it didn’t.
I’m using newer version of gmail (not older/HTML version).
Yeah, I get that “Display the images below” in gmail, and once clicked it displays images within the mail body/message. I don’t have to download them or open or view them from attachments. I want it do like this, photos should show up to their full size (attachments show thumbnails) within the email.
If it’s an art, then surely I don’t have it.
Help, can anybody help me?

I save the picture on my desktop and drag it into the e-mail form.

@PandoraBoxx I tried many things, drag and drop, copy and paste, but none of them worked.
Has anyone sent it so far? If so, how?

I just checked—I’m on a mac and and can drag and drop when I send e-mails through Apple Mail, but not when I access gmail directly.

Google Help has several work around suggestions for embedding images in composed messages.

To expand upon @johnpowell‘s quip:

If you’re using Outlook and want to embed an image inline in your email (that is, where the photo shows up in the body of the message, not just as an attachment), I highly recommend ensuring your email is in HTML format (not RTF and of course not plain text).

You see, I’ve found that if an Outlook-created email is in RTF format, and you attempt to embed a .GIF or .JPG image in the message body, that Outlook will convert the image to .BMP. So your little 300KB jpeg file will get ballooned out to 4MB or other ridiculous size because bitmap images do not employ compression (and are flat out stupid for most purposes).

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In Outlook 2007, start a new email and:
– type your message
– place the cursor where you want the image to go
– click the Options tab – (you’d think Format Text, but no, this is MS)
– ensure HTML is selected in the Format portion of the ribbon
– click the Insert tab
– click the Picture button
– select the image you want to embed inline – (best if it’s GIF, JPG, or PNG)
– click Send

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Then, how your email is presented to the reader is also a function of what email client they employ. As others mention, Google will show no images by default, and the reader must enable images. Outlook does that for url-based (not directly attached images). Apple Mail does similar. So does Thunderbird. And then you’ve got UNIX mail geeks who only ever read plaintext from commandline and will hate you and your HTML-formatted message. You just can’t win them all.

I open the picture in a picture-handling program—in my case, Paint Shop Pro—and size it and then just copy and paste. I’m not using gmail, though. I have Eudora installed.

I think some recipients will see it as an attachment and others will see it embedded, depending on their mail handling programs.