How To Insert Photos In Your Emails
A very popular and fun way to display and share your photography with friends and family is to insert them in your emails. Would you like to try it out ? it’s easy…
There is two ways to include a photo into an email: as an attachment or as an insert.
Photo Attachments
I do not recommend using the attachment method because attachments are often being used mischievously to spread virus and some anti-virus programs or firewalls installed on computers may block them . So let’s skip right away to the insertion method.
Photo Inserts
When the recipient opens the email, they can view the photo(s) along with the text.
Here’s the step-by-step procedure to insert photos in emails:
Step 1.
In your email program, open a new message.
On the top navigational toolbar, click on the INSERT command, and then choose IMAGE from the drop-down menu.
Insert - Image
A window will pop-up.
Step 2.
Click on the CHOOSE FILE button to locate on your hard disk the photograph you want to send.
Once you found it, click on the photo file’s name. Notice the path to it’s location on the hard disk now displays in the location field of the pop-up window.
Insert A Picture From Hard Disk
Step 3.
Click on the OK button.
Your photo now displays into the body of your message! Isn’t that cool ?
Photo Displays In Body Of Email
You can now type your message. Let’s be creative and add a color background to the email.
Step 4.
On the top navigational toolbar, select the FORMAT command, then, from the drop-down menu, click on the PAGE COLORS & BACKGROUND option.
Select a color of your choice and then click on OK.
Colored background
Et voilà ! Your mail can now convey much more emotions along with your message.
Don’t we say that a photo is worth 1,000 words ?
CAUTION !
One thing you must take into consideration when emailing photos is the file size of your photos. Keep in mind that many people are still on dial up systems and it might take forever to download
on their computer !
They won’t stay your friends very long if you bog down their system or fill up their inbox storage capacity. 🙁
So, with the help of a photo editing software, be sure to compress your photos before you include them in your emails, otherwise the photos will be so large that the only way to view them on the recipient computer screen will be to scroll up and down and side to side. Not very convenient.
As a guideline, the size of your photos should be around 600 x 400 and the file format extension should be .JPG or .GIF
No matter where they live, make someone’s day by sharing treasured memories through pictures inserted into your emails.
This is a nice post. There are so many people out there who do not know how to send out photos to friends and family. By the way, which email program are you using in the steps above? The steps may be different based on the email program being used.
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I hope it will help many people to add nice pictures into their emails. I was using Mozilla Thunderbird email program for the screenhots. You have a good point. It did not cross my mind that they are different email programs out there. If anyone has a problem, do not hesitate to send me an email at contact@janicedugas.com and I will reply with help. Thanks Pam for your comments. Greatly appreciated. Take care.
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I think I will try to recommend this post to my friends and family, cuz it’s really helpful.
I am looking for a different Email client than my current Compuserve. Com;puserve does make it easy to “insert” photo’s in it’s Email. You just “paste” them in. Very convient. Com;puserve, however, is not being supported. Web pages do not display properly. If I change Emails, I would like the capability to “paste” images into the body of the mails. It is so much easier to size an image in another ap, then just copy it and paste it in.
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Using Thunderbird, it’s as easy. Two clicks. A) Insert an image from file and B) click on the image on your HD that you want to insert. Et voilà! And you can resize it more if needed, inside the body of the email by click/drag the corners of the image. Best.