Apple MAIL seems to only cater for sending photos as embedded images in the body of the message text: Windows recipients expect JPEG photofiles as seperate "Attchments" to be opened by double clicking. This is a far superior method; why doesn't Apple cater for the majority???
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Two possible methods to do what you want:
1 - get the image file to the Desktop and Control (right) - click on it and select compress (zip) it. Add the zipped file to the email.
2 - put the image file in a folder and add the folder to the email.
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Two possible methods to do what you want:
1 - get the image file to the Desktop and Control (right) - click on it and select compress (zip) it. Add the zipped file to the email.
2 - put the image file in a folder and add the folder to the email.
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This has been a problem ever since Mac came out with OS X Mail. As you say, they solved it for the iPad, but why not for the Mac? Too interested in pretty templates and other bloatware 'features' rather than getting a frustrating problem regarding a basic requirement fixed.
Or much better and less cumbersome : just right click on the file and choose "Display as icon"... You're driving an Apple made computer :-)
But that's only for what you see in Mail on your Mac. It doesn't carry over to the Windows machines. They have their own preferences on how to display images.
I tried: I "exported" the "file" that I created, with two trial photos. I tried dragging and dropping the JPEG files from the desktop into the Mail icon. That did NOT work - the image appeared as an embedded picture in the email that I sent to my Dell PC! I tried clicking on the paperclip symbol in a new Mail message. That produced the very same result! Additionally, the image appeard as a "Bitmap" (.bmp) file instead of JPEG format!!!
Have you actually been able to send a photo from iPhoto on your Mac to a PC running Microsoft Windows Outlook? Perhaps your method only works if the recipient has a Mac running Microsoft Works for Mac.
Nope, I conclude that Apple does not cater for sending RAW or JPEG files as attachments so that they can conveniently copied/printed/forwarded by recipients - especially the majority (sensible) Windows PC users.
I am hugely disappointed, perhaps I shoud say disgusted, with the Mac sofware on my, very pretty, new iMac. I was fooled by the clever feature on my new iPad, which embeds photo attachments into a new email message on the iPad, but cleverly and automatically converts my Canon CR2 RAW pictures downloaded from my EOS 5D into JPEG attachments as received by my friends' (Windows) PCs. Why can't tje iPhoto/Mail programs on my iMac not do the same??? How annoyingly frustrating!!!
There is a solution, but it's a paid for plugin called Attachment Tamer from Lokiware:
http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer
You can use it in demo mode to see if you like it before committing to purchase.
(Usual caveat: I've no connection with Lokiware, just happy to recommend their product which I've used for years).
Thanx, Paul_31!
I thought there would be a non-Apple plug-in "solution", and the price seems good. I thought I might have to buy the full M/s Works for Mac, at huge expense, and with all the additional problems I have read about on the Apple blogs on the Internet!
I think it is scandelous that Apple has not responded to this problem (over so many years, and after so many complaints) either by offering a plug-in or an upgrade to their silly Mail program which offers absurd, but very pretty Templates for attaching photos with fancy and frivolous music and special effects!!!
Any serious amateur photographer needs Apple to resolve this - they did something for the iPad version, as I said, the iMac bundled software should be better not worse! I had been looking forward to buying and learning to use Aperture; I'm having second thoughts. I shoud've stuck with Windows PCs, and not been besotted by the iMac pretty appearance!
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There's a really really simple solution that requires no plugins or nothing else.
Send plain text emails.
Other than that, other apps on other systems are quite capable of dealing with the mails that Mail sends. However, not every user using those apps on every other OS is. We send photos to WIndows users all the time with no issues as they have figured out how to set up their mail client.
And finally, if you're not going to follow the instructions you're given:
get the image file to the Desktop and Control (right) - click on it and select compress (zip) it. Add the zipped file to the email.
and not:
I "exported" the "file" that I created, with two trial photos. I tried dragging and dropping the JPEG files from the desktop into the Mail icon. That did NOT work
Then you'll always have problems with solutions offered.
That is a solution and certainly answers my confusion as to why certain emails had images attached and others were embedded.
Still, I don't think it's possible to tell a PC using Outlook to fix a Macs embedded images so they appear as attachments is it? I know of no such setting and this problem has been bugging me for years.
I cannot really be asking all my Mac clients to resend their emails in plain text.
If you know a fix I would be most grateful.
Lastly, if I could just copy from the email and paste into Photoshop that would be perfect - but it doesn't work!
This has always been a real pain in the but.
Usually, by changing the format to 'Make Plain Text' in Apple Mail under Format gets round the problem. However, today I was trying to send some gif files and the only way to get them to be seen by a PC was to stick them in a folder so that they were automatically Ziped. A bit silly when they only total 117kb!
Not a great option when sending to a client!
Apple…?
Doesn't anyone know anyone at Apple who can fix this basic issue of imbedding rather than attaching files unless you jump through hoops? And if anyone does know someone, could they also get a fix on automatic spellcheck which changes typed text to very strange words and then insists the user must be wrong and makes it difficult to correct the correction. Thanks so much!
For the spellcheck you can turn it off in Mail's Composing preference pane:
Unless you zip the image you can't be sure how the receiving email client will handle the attached photo. You can Control (right) - click on the photo and select Show as icon from the contextual menu in your email window but that's no guarantee how the recipient's email client will display it.
But when i did that and open up my sent items, the images were there and not the icons. The recipient can't receive picture and must get the files.
select the photos you would like to send (by clicking on them)
go to file - export and select export jpeg to documents
in email, select attach, then go to documents and find your photo, and email in the usual way
the only difficulty is I can't find a way to name the photos, so can only find the jpeg in documents if I look immediately after exporting and check according to the time listed.
not as "user friendly' as it should be -- but it seems to work.
How do I attach JPEG photo files to email rather than embed the image?
