How To Create Embed Image Mail In Gmail

D.BOY

May 11 2006, 12:39 AM

Hi to all !

Anybody can help me to create an email with embedded image so that mail reader automatically see that image. Moreover I wont attached that image as it appears small in size in on gmail.

Thanks in Advance.

moldboy

May 11 2006, 12:54 AM

It looks to me like you can't in gmail, if you could it would be in the rich formatting toolbar and would be insert an image. THere is an entry in their help here https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer....4261&topic=1516 however it doesn't appear to offer help like you want. Um if you mean make the images show up in gmail, (they don't by default) you can't make someone elses gmail show the images you sent, unless you send the images as an attachment, but then it won't be in the body of the email.

rvalkass

May 11 2006, 05:50 AM

Google's help files state this:

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Google Mail doesn't currently offer the ability to attach images inline, because we don't support HTML formatting.

Even when you use the full formatting options, you don't have any HTML options or anything like that, so you can only send mail in plain text, but you can receive messages with inline images.

Zecc

Jul 22 2006, 09:53 AM

Here's a way, which I haven't tried myself, but probably works if they say so:

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First, get and install Flock. It's free. It's not version 1.0 yet, it has many bugs, but it is usable.

Second, set up a Flickr account. It's free. Post your image on Flickr, and enable it for public viewing.

Third, open a web browser window and go to your Gmail account. Click "Compose Mail" to start a new message. Type a few words on a few lines to start with.

Fourth, bring up Flock and click the feather-pen icon, as if you're entering a web log entry. If you don't have any weblog system set up yet, don't worry, you don't need one for this (click "cancel" if a dialog box asks you to log in to one). click the "topbar" icon, and choose "Flickr topbar". Enter your username in there, so it finds your image.

Now drag and drop that image into the body of your Flock web log entry area.

Lastly, select that image in the flock web log entry area, and drag-n-drop it into your Gmail window's message body! The image magically appears there!

From http://pauliotech.blogspot.com/2005/12/flo...mage-trick.html

Fast and easy, isn't it?

delivi

Aug 13 2006, 05:50 PM

Actually drag and drop, and copy, pasting of images does make it appear in the compose window, but when you send that mail to someone they'll not be able to view the image. Only you can view the image, you can store in the drafts and view it later, but the image cant be seen by the receiver.

serverph

Aug 13 2006, 06:38 PM

it can be done as what D.BOY wants it.

i've done it several times successfully.

first thing to do is make your image available online. upload it somewhere, like http://www.imageshack.us 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: http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1627/zi060813vo1.gif

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!

of course, your recipients should be online to be able to view the image (in GMAIL, they should choose to DISPLAY IMAGES BELOW when they receive your email with embedded image).

if you doubt it, test it first.

if you cant replicate what i've done PM me with your GMAIL address, and i'll send you an embedded image as proof myself

post your results below.

btw, it will not appear as an attachment as it will directly access the online image from where you uploaded it when recipient views your email with embedded image.

iGuest

Oct 3 2007, 02:10 PM

How To Create Embed Image Mail In Gmail

This method worked 100%, after wasting 2 hours searching for help everywhere else. Thank you so much!!!!

-Dawn

iGuest

Oct 3 2007, 11:15 PM

Worked Perfectly! Thanks! You are the only one to figure that I have found!

-Dustin

iGuest

Oct 30 2007, 10:51 AM

To create a gmail email with embedded images you need to copy and paste them from another browser window, but to get them to appear in another browser window does not mean you have to upload them to the web. You can create and html file on you local hard drive and open that in your browser instead. I have create a simply batch file to automate this.

###Create Batch file (do once only)

1. Open notepad

to. Paste in the following

echo ^<html^> > album.html

echo ^<head^>^<title^>GMail album^</title^>^</head^> >> album.html

echo ^<body^> >> album.html

echo ^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^> >> album.html

for %%I in (*.jpg *.jpeg) do echo ^<img src="%%I"^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^> >> album.html

echo ^</body^> >> album.html

echo ^</html^> >> album.html

3. Save it as see:\windows\create-jpeg-album.bat

### Preparing Images (repeat for each different email)

1. Resize/copy all email images into an empty folder.

to. Open command prompt window in empty folder.

3. Type create-jpeg-album at prompt and hit enter.

A file called album.html should appear in this folder

### Creating the email (repeat for each email)

1. Compose a new rich text gmail email.

to. From windows explorer double click on album.html to open it in a new browser window.

3. Use the menu Edit/Select All or Ctrl-A to select the entire contents of album.html.

4. Use the menu Edit/Copy or Ctrl-C to copy the contents to the clipboard.

5. Click in the body of the new gmail email and use the menu Edit/Paste or Ctrl-V to paste the contents into the body of the new email.

Hope this helps

Jim

-Jim Fricker

iGuest

Nov 1 2007, 02:44 AM

Thanks! Highlight online image, copy paste works like a charm! I put a note to press the display images to the recipients

-Stellar

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serverph

Nov 20 2008, 06:36 PM

QUOTE(angelrodriquez @ Nov 20 2008, 02:00 PM)

Ive figured out how to embed the image just fine. But now I want to make the embedded image a clickable linked image. Problem is that when I click on the image and add my link to it in Gmail, when I send it off and it is opened on the other side, it displays the URL right next to the image everytime. No matter what I can't get rid of it. I want a clean clickable, embedded image, with no border (preferable) and no URL next to the image. Anyone know how to do this?

Please also PM me

it could be how gmail is coded right now, so nothing much can be done on that part if you are inclined to use the newer version of gmail. note that gmail has a new theme now.

however, i did try using the OLDER VERSION (linked at the menu on top right of the page) of COMPOSE MAIL and you can particularly "eliminate" the text link which crops up every time on the newer version. the good thing with the older version is that it only prompts for the LINK, with no additional TEXT TO DISPLAY option in the newer version (which gmail automatically fills up with the text of the URL if you don't customize it yourself). if you want, you can customize it as a "space" or a "dot/period", so it would appear "less visible" (there will always be the telltale portion where the space or dot/period appears). in short, use the OLDER VERSION to compose your mail if you want to use this "trick" of embedding images with links on gmail for a "cleaner" presentation on the recipient's end.

if you are bothered with the blue border which appears when an image is linked, sorry can't help you with that since it probably is a browser presentation code, and if you can cheat it not to be displayed on your browser, i don't suppose it would necessarily be the same for others you send your message with image+links to (unless they do the same cheat you did for your browser on their end). if they use OLDER VERSION of gmail when reading their messages, the blue border disappears since that is apparently how it was coded then.

for TEST purposes, PM me with your gmail address if you want and i'll zap a sample your way next time.

angelrodriquez

Nov 20 2008, 06:00 AM

angelrodriquez

Nov 20 2008, 05:55 AM

QUOTE(Trap FeedBacker @ Oct 30 2007, 02:51 AM)

This batch file is great for creating albums. How do you change the batch file so that it creates an album with the FULL Image URL/Location? Like it has the full path of where the file is stored rather than the abbreviated filename path you currently have in the batch file, where it just has it locate the file because it happens to be in the same folder/directory

iGuest

Nov 19 2008, 07:18 PM

Excelent...
The post about copying the image from any free server worked perfectly for me.
Thanks!!

-reply by martini

iGuest

Nov 1 2008, 02:45 AM

embedding images in gmail
How To Create Embed Image Mail In Gmail

Gosh! you're good! how did you figure this out? I just tried it myself in my last email. Thanks for sharing! :)

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