Paste picture directly into email

lisaemc wrote:

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There were lots of answers. Can you be more specific?

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Anything in an email message that is not text must be sent as an attachment. That is just the way email works. Doing it any other way would be incompatible with email protocols. Some email programs will display the content of some attachments so that you might not even recognize that they are attachments. What the recipient sees will depend on how his program handles attachments, and it might be different from what you see. If you want to use email you have to live with those differences.

Copy /paste works fine with MacMail, but the issue is still there in Outlook for Mac. The only way I've been able to solve this is to right click and "save image as" - JPG to your desktop. Then open the saved image from your desktop, copy and paste it into the body of your email. BINGO. Multiple steps but it works. Good luck.

Why not just drag the picture file into the mail message at the point you want to insert it?

Here's a sample Mail.app message with a picture inserted.

Or, Control-click the picture; Copy.

Paste into email.

Agree - it's just that  has provided a multiplicity of ways

to attach.

Jeffrey, that is mostly correct, but not entirely accurate.

Yes, anything that is not text must technically be "attached" to the email; however, html-formatted messages does provide the ability to embed attached images inside the text.

HTML-formatted messages, which is supported in most of the email world, should be supported by Mail.app, but I'm not 100% if sure if it is. I have a plugin called "Attachment Tamer" installed in my Mail app and—whether it's due to Mail.app or the Attachment Tamer plugin—I am thankfully able to embed pictures the way any good mail program should.

Frank, if you are still unable to, I would suggest: (1) checking to be sure that your message is in Rich Text format and not Plain Text format (the latter would never support any embedded images on any platform); and, if it is indeed Rich Text format and still not working, then download the "Attachment Tamer" trial and go through the few easy-to-understand settings, and then try again.

It works for me.

the screen shot is saved on your desktop

Drag the icon of the screen shot into the body of your email

This will allow it to show up exactly as the screen shot was take.

Simple and Easy and possible. You are exactly right.

There is no way to do this on a Mac. Mac people here will tell you differently, but that's because they don't know exactly what you're trying to do and think it' something else, something a Mac CAN do. But the process you're describing is unique to PC--I use it all the time--and yes, you can send things other than attachments and it's not "against email protocol." But a Mac can't do it, sadly.

Zorro, I'm not sure why you're responding to a 3+ year old thread, but since you did, I'll join the party.

There is no way to do this on a Mac

You are actually not quite right here. This is not a "Mac can't do it", or "PC-only" thing. It's up to the mail client in question as to whether is displays images inline or not.

In Mail.app, you can ctrl-click on any image attachment and choose whether to 'View As Icon' or 'View In Place', but there are no standards for this - if you say View In Place, you'll see the image inline on your system, but whether the recipient see it that way depends on their mail client (NOT their OS).

That isn't what I'm trying to do, however.

I agree with you 100%. I've been able to take screen shots for years using a PC and pasting them directly anywhere I want in an Outlook email by simply using control-V. I just switched to Mac and this functionality is nonexistent in Outlook. Saving the image to the machine and then pulling it up to add as an attachment as traditional Mac lovers suggest is counter intuitive. As with a PC, one should be able to paste whatever is on the clipboard into an email message without any fuss. Email protocol is irrelevant. The user's experience is.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying, Zorro... As far as I'm aware you can "... paste whatever is on the clipboard into an email message without any fuss"

In any case that doesn't directly address the original poster's issue of inline images vs. attachments - that IS, always has been, and likely forever will be under client-side control. As a matter of fact, ALL images are sent as inline attachments (typically as a MIME blob attached to the email), and it's up to the mail client as to whether it decodes it and displays the image inline.

Or maybe what you're complaining about is the inability to take a screen shot and paste the result directly into your email message (or wherever). That sounds to me more like an issue with not understanding all the screen capture options. I take it you're familiar with:

Command-Shift-3: Capture entire screen, save it to Desktop

Command-Shift-4: Capture region, save it to Desktop

For both of these, though, add the Control key (e.g. Command-Control-Shift-4) and the screen capture is placed on the clipboard rather than to a file, and you can paste it wherever you like.... including, I presume, Outlook.

I had this problem too but have now fixed it.

I used the Universal Mailer plugin for Mac Mail, and also had to enter this command into Terminal.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png

Now it works for me. I can send rich text format emails with an embedded screengrab directly (i.e. without needing to save the screengrab to disk and then paste or attach the file into the email).