first thing to do is make your image available online. upload it somewhere, like <a class="user" href="http://www.imageshack.us">http://www.imageshack.us</a> for example. if you uploaded it in imageshack, get the direct link of the image and paste it on your browser.here is a sample image i uploaded so you can test it yourself in the next steps: <a class="user" href="http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1627/zi060813vo1.gif">http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1627/zi060813vo1.gif</a>once its loaded in your browser, drag your mouse across the image so the whole image gets selected or highlighted (it would turn dark to indicate that it is successfully highlighted/selected). don't miss that part.then while it is selected/highlighted, right-click your mouse over it, then from the menu which appears, choose COPY.go to your GMAIL account, then COMPOSE MAIL. use RICH FORMATTING instead of PLAIN TEXT. then press CTRL-V to paste the copied image in your message body. the image will then show and appear embedded. fill out the recipients of your email, then send away!
chck out iClippy.com - it does that extra work uploading the image to the server for you, all you have to do is cut-n-paste. Plus it supports free region selection.
Thanks for this. This works, BUT Gmail goofs up with the size of the image! :( I have a 660 x 789 pixels image. I paste it in Gmail, but when it arrives, the size is just a little bit bigger so the text in the image is all blurry (anti aliased). Any ideas?
You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar (insert) icon. Make sure you're in rich formatting mode, or it won't show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs.It's that easy. no need to upload to image shack first,
oh man you just made my day!! I highly recommend checking out the other "Labs" in the Settings section, there are some super fun ones! Procrastinator I knew that Gmail would provide a way to do this and thanks for sharing the info! You're awesome!
truebullfanAug 23, 2006Submitter
first thing to do is make your image available online. upload it somewhere, like <a class="user" href="http://www.imageshack.us">http://www.imageshack.us</a> for example. if you uploaded it in imageshack, get the direct link of the image and paste it on your browser.here is a sample image i uploaded so you can test it yourself in the next steps: <a class="user" href="http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1627/zi060813vo1.gif">http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1627/zi060813vo1.gif</a>once its loaded in your browser, drag your mouse across the image so the whole image gets selected or highlighted (it would turn dark to indicate that it is successfully highlighted/selected). don't miss that part.then while it is selected/highlighted, right-click your mouse over it, then from the menu which appears, choose COPY.go to your GMAIL account, then COMPOSE MAIL. use RICH FORMATTING instead of PLAIN TEXT. then press CTRL-V to paste the copied image in your message body. the image will then show and appear embedded. fill out the recipients of your email, then send away!
th0rusNov 8, 2007
This helped! Thx!
mepatelNov 9, 2007
It Helped me too, thanks ! Just to make a little correction, it works only with IE.
drspoqAug 2, 2008
Actually it works in Firefox too. You just have to make sure you "COPY" NOT "COPY IMAGE".
ditkisAug 20, 2008
chck out iClippy.com - it does that extra work uploading the image to the server for you, all you have to do is cut-n-paste. Plus it supports free region selection.
ductdavisDec 16, 2008
Any tricks for doing this on a Mac?
jukilimburJan 1, 2009
Thanks for this. This works, BUT Gmail goofs up with the size of the image! :( I have a 660 x 789 pixels image. I paste it in Gmail, but when it arrives, the size is just a little bit bigger so the text in the image is all blurry (anti aliased). Any ideas?
jck1Jan 1, 2009
click on the image and when that thing pop's up click original
procrastinator2Jun 3, 2009
You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar (insert) icon. Make sure you're in rich formatting mode, or it won't show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs.It's that easy. no need to upload to image shack first,
livdiamondAug 7, 2009
oh man you just made my day!! I highly recommend checking out the other "Labs" in the Settings section, there are some super fun ones! Procrastinator I knew that Gmail would provide a way to do this and thanks for sharing the info! You're awesome!
maguijpcSep 13, 2009
Thanks!! :)
galmac618Jan 28, 2011
If you have the image saved on your computer, you can just drag and drop the image directly into the email body text