Allison’s Retrospection

September 21, 2008

How to Display An Image Inline in Gmail?

Filed under: Computer, General — by Alliraph @ 11:25 pm
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As most of the Gmail users may have realized, Gmail does not have the ability to send inline images in the body of email because it does not support HTML formatting. Sometimes, to get our messages delivered in a more meaningful and colorful way, an attachment is definitely less effective than an inline image.

So how to make it in Gmail? Here is a trick for you.

First upload your images to Flickr (sign up an account if you aren’t a Flickr user). Set the privacy to Public.

Then download and install the social web browser, Flock.

Launch Flock and go to one of its homepages “My World”. Go to Friend Activity and click Flickr. You’ll be directed to the website. Log in and choose the image you wish to insert. 


There is an option bar appear on top of the image. Click Blog as if you’re going to write a blog entry. You’ll be asked to set up a blog account. You can ignore it (if you don’t plan to) by clicking Continue.

 

A blog editor containing your selected image will pop up. Now open a new tab in Flock and go to your Gmail account. Drag the image from the blog editor window to your Gmail message box.

Complete your email and send it. Your recipient will get your inline image mail like this:

Well, it does not seem a good solution but if you can’t find any, it is nevertheless an useful solution to embed image in Gmail rather than attaching it as a separate file. Other suggestions are welcome. :)

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