Sending and receiving pictures in e-mail
Tips for sending pictures through e-mail:
Below are some general tips to consider when sending any attachment through e-mail, including pictures.
It is common courtesy to only send 1-5 attachments or pictures in a single e-mail. If you have more than five pictures, we suggest you post your pictures on an online site and simply send the link to that site with all your pictures or compress all the files into one file.
Reduce the size of the images and/or keep the image size small. Many times when scanning an image or taking a picture of the image, it is a large file and often takes up a lot of space. Not only does this cause longer downloads, but in some cases may even cause your e-mails to not be received because of the space taken by the pictures.
Keep the images and/or convert the images into formats supported by multiple computers. For example, all computers are capable of opening JPEG(JPG) and GIF images. Make sure the images are in one of these types of formats.
Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express
Attaching pictures to a Microsoft Outlook e-mail
To attach pictures to a Microsoft Outlook, follow the below steps.
Open Microsoft Outlook.
Reply to an existing e-mail, or compose a new e-mail by clicking on the New icon in the top left portion of the window.
In the e-mail, click on the 'Insert file' icon that looks like a small paperclip, or click on Insert at the top of the window and choose file.
Browse to the location that contains your image and double-click the image to insert it.
If successfully attached you should see an icon of the attachment in your e-mail.
Below is an alternative method of attaching an image into an e-mail.
Open My computer or Windows explorer and browse to the location of where your pictures are located.
Highlight and copy the picture you wish to send in an e-mail. Open a new e-mail or the e-mail you're replying to that you wish to attach the images into, right-click in the message portion of the e-mail and click paste.
Viewing pictures in a Microsoft Outlook e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and double-click the attachment icon at the bottom of the window or click the yellow paperclip icon in the e-mail preview.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Attaching pictures to a Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail
To attach pictures to a Mozilla Thunderbird, follow the below steps.
Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
Reply to an existing e-mail, or compose a new e-mail by clicking on the Write icon in the top left portion of the window.
In the e-mail, click on the 'Attach' icon that looks like a large paperclip, or click on Insert at the top of the window and choose image. Note: If you insert an image by clicking on Insert and clicking image, it is inserted as an image into a HTML formatted e-mail. This means some e-mail clients (text clients) may not be able to view the image properly.
Click the Choose File button and browse to the location of the image or photo that you wish to attach into the e-mail.
Click Ok.
If attached successfully, you should see the image in the body of your e-mail message or if attached to the e-mail you should see it listed in the attachments.
Viewing pictures in a Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and double-click the attachment name at the bottom of the window. Also, for many commonly known images, it may already be shown in the e-mail without having to open it.
Microsoft Hotmail
Attaching pictures to a Microsoft Hotmail e-mail
To attach pictures in Hotmail, follow the below steps.
Open your Hotmail account on http://www.hotmail.com.
Click the New Message link.
Click the Attach and then File link.
Click the Browse button and browse to the image you wish to attach. Keep in mind that you cannot select multiple files at once. However, you can individually add each of the images or attachments you wish to add.
Click Ok or OK and Attach Another if you wish to do more than one image.
If attached successfully, you should see a link with the attachment names in your e-mail. Once you're ready to send the message, click the Send button.
Viewing pictures in a Microsoft Hotmail e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and click the view or download link to view the image. Also, for many commonly known images, it may already be shown in the e-mail without having to open it.
Gmail
Attaching pictures to a Gmail e-mail
To attach pictures in Gmail follow the below steps.
Open your Gmail account on http://www.gmail.com.
Click the Compose Mail link.
Click the Attach a file link.
Click the Browse button and browse to the image you wish to attach. Keep in mind that you cannot select multiple files at once. However, you can individually add each of the images or attachments you wish to add.
Click Ok.
If attached successfully, you should see a link with the attachment names in your e-mail. Once you're ready to send the message, click the Send button.
Viewing pictures in a Gmail e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and click the view or download link to view the image. Also, for many commonly known images it may already be shown in the e-mail without having to open it.
Sending Images In Email Without Attachments:
If I were to send an email with images in it, but no attachment, then I would send an HTML email with the image stored on a web server somewhere. In this particular example, I’m going to send an HTML email via Outlook express using the free service Photobucket. First I’m going to upload my image to Photobucket, then I’m going to use the HTML code from Photobucket in Outlook express to send the HTML email.
Step 1: Uploading an image to a web server:
Go to http://photobucket.com/ and either signup a new account or log into an existing account. Then upload your image to Photobucket. In this case, I’ve uploaded an image of a devilbat. Copy the code from the Tag textbox. This will be the HTML we use in our email.
Photobucket’s Tag code looks like this:
<a href=“http://photobucket.com/” target=“_blank”><imgsrc=“https://2img.net/h/i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/seanh420/devilbat.gif”border=“0″ alt=“Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting”></a>
Note that the Photobucket code includes a link to Photobucket.
To remove the link, delete the all the crap out to get this instead:
<img src=“https://2img.net/h/i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/seanh420/devilbat.gif”border=“0″>
Step 2: Inserting the HTML code into an email in Outlook Express
Open Outlook Express and Create a new email. Click on the Source tab to show the HTML source code to the email. You’ll notice that Outlook has already inserted a bunch of code. Look for the <DIV> and </DIV> tags. You want to paste your Photobucket code between those tags. Then click back over to the Edit tab and finish writing your message.
That should get you started.
Tips for sending pictures through e-mail:
Below are some general tips to consider when sending any attachment through e-mail, including pictures.
It is common courtesy to only send 1-5 attachments or pictures in a single e-mail. If you have more than five pictures, we suggest you post your pictures on an online site and simply send the link to that site with all your pictures or compress all the files into one file.
Reduce the size of the images and/or keep the image size small. Many times when scanning an image or taking a picture of the image, it is a large file and often takes up a lot of space. Not only does this cause longer downloads, but in some cases may even cause your e-mails to not be received because of the space taken by the pictures.
Keep the images and/or convert the images into formats supported by multiple computers. For example, all computers are capable of opening JPEG(JPG) and GIF images. Make sure the images are in one of these types of formats.
Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express
Attaching pictures to a Microsoft Outlook e-mail
To attach pictures to a Microsoft Outlook, follow the below steps.
Open Microsoft Outlook.
Reply to an existing e-mail, or compose a new e-mail by clicking on the New icon in the top left portion of the window.
In the e-mail, click on the 'Insert file' icon that looks like a small paperclip, or click on Insert at the top of the window and choose file.
Browse to the location that contains your image and double-click the image to insert it.
If successfully attached you should see an icon of the attachment in your e-mail.
Below is an alternative method of attaching an image into an e-mail.
Open My computer or Windows explorer and browse to the location of where your pictures are located.
Highlight and copy the picture you wish to send in an e-mail. Open a new e-mail or the e-mail you're replying to that you wish to attach the images into, right-click in the message portion of the e-mail and click paste.
Viewing pictures in a Microsoft Outlook e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and double-click the attachment icon at the bottom of the window or click the yellow paperclip icon in the e-mail preview.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Attaching pictures to a Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail
To attach pictures to a Mozilla Thunderbird, follow the below steps.
Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
Reply to an existing e-mail, or compose a new e-mail by clicking on the Write icon in the top left portion of the window.
In the e-mail, click on the 'Attach' icon that looks like a large paperclip, or click on Insert at the top of the window and choose image. Note: If you insert an image by clicking on Insert and clicking image, it is inserted as an image into a HTML formatted e-mail. This means some e-mail clients (text clients) may not be able to view the image properly.
Click the Choose File button and browse to the location of the image or photo that you wish to attach into the e-mail.
Click Ok.
If attached successfully, you should see the image in the body of your e-mail message or if attached to the e-mail you should see it listed in the attachments.
Viewing pictures in a Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and double-click the attachment name at the bottom of the window. Also, for many commonly known images, it may already be shown in the e-mail without having to open it.
Microsoft Hotmail
Attaching pictures to a Microsoft Hotmail e-mail
To attach pictures in Hotmail, follow the below steps.
Open your Hotmail account on http://www.hotmail.com.
Click the New Message link.
Click the Attach and then File link.
Click the Browse button and browse to the image you wish to attach. Keep in mind that you cannot select multiple files at once. However, you can individually add each of the images or attachments you wish to add.
Click Ok or OK and Attach Another if you wish to do more than one image.
If attached successfully, you should see a link with the attachment names in your e-mail. Once you're ready to send the message, click the Send button.
Viewing pictures in a Microsoft Hotmail e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and click the view or download link to view the image. Also, for many commonly known images, it may already be shown in the e-mail without having to open it.
Gmail
Attaching pictures to a Gmail e-mail
To attach pictures in Gmail follow the below steps.
Open your Gmail account on http://www.gmail.com.
Click the Compose Mail link.
Click the Attach a file link.
Click the Browse button and browse to the image you wish to attach. Keep in mind that you cannot select multiple files at once. However, you can individually add each of the images or attachments you wish to add.
Click Ok.
If attached successfully, you should see a link with the attachment names in your e-mail. Once you're ready to send the message, click the Send button.
Viewing pictures in a Gmail e-mail
Keep in mind that not all e-mails will have attached pictures in them. You can determine if an e-mail has an attachment by looking for a paperclip icon in the listing of e-mails you have. However, some messages are also sent in HTML format, which means images can be included without being attachments.
To view the pictures in the e-mail, open the e-mail and click the view or download link to view the image. Also, for many commonly known images it may already be shown in the e-mail without having to open it.
Sending Images In Email Without Attachments:
If I were to send an email with images in it, but no attachment, then I would send an HTML email with the image stored on a web server somewhere. In this particular example, I’m going to send an HTML email via Outlook express using the free service Photobucket. First I’m going to upload my image to Photobucket, then I’m going to use the HTML code from Photobucket in Outlook express to send the HTML email.
Step 1: Uploading an image to a web server:
Go to http://photobucket.com/ and either signup a new account or log into an existing account. Then upload your image to Photobucket. In this case, I’ve uploaded an image of a devilbat. Copy the code from the Tag textbox. This will be the HTML we use in our email.
Photobucket’s Tag code looks like this:
<a href=“http://photobucket.com/” target=“_blank”><imgsrc=“https://2img.net/h/i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/seanh420/devilbat.gif”border=“0″ alt=“Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting”></a>
Note that the Photobucket code includes a link to Photobucket.
To remove the link, delete the all the crap out to get this instead:
<img src=“https://2img.net/h/i8.photobucket.com/albums/a16/seanh420/devilbat.gif”border=“0″>
Step 2: Inserting the HTML code into an email in Outlook Express
Open Outlook Express and Create a new email. Click on the Source tab to show the HTML source code to the email. You’ll notice that Outlook has already inserted a bunch of code. Look for the <DIV> and </DIV> tags. You want to paste your Photobucket code between those tags. Then click back over to the Edit tab and finish writing your message.
That should get you started.
