How on earth do I send photos via the new "Photos" application???

So far what works best for me is dragging the photo to the desktop and then

dropping it into an email or other application you want to use it for.

"So here's what I found to be fairly easy to do, using the current iterations of Photos and Outlook. Open Photos and select the picture(s) that you want to send. Once they're selected, go to the Photos > File drop-down menu, then select the "Export" option. I use the first option: "Export n Photos..." (or use the indicated Shift+Command+E" keyboard shortcut).

In the resulting window, select the options for the photos: Photo Kind selections are JPEG, TIFF or PNG. Then select the Quality options (Low, Medium, High, Maximum), and Size (Small, Medium, Large, Full Size, Custom). These options can help limit the size of the resulting photo files you'll be attaching to your email message. Then pick the appropriate "Info' and "File Naming" options, and click the "Export" button. Decide where you want to export the file(s) to -- I typically just use the Desktop as a temporary repository for the photos, but use whatever works best for you. Now all you have to do is to open Outlook, create a new message, and attach your exported photos"

Outlook 2016 for MAC does not have a quality selection.

So I cannot reduce the size of all the photos at the same time.

The editing is so dreadful i have moved to Photoshop.

I can also use Photoshop to resize the photos but what a lengthy process for something that used to be effortless.

The person who introduces Photos instead of Iphotos should be fired or disposed of in a less attractive manner.

She/He has cost me countless hours of frustration and wasted time.

The idiots who employed her/him should be sent back to the unemployment line from whence they undoubtedly came

I was an idiot who transferred to Mac after years as a PC user because MAC was "so easy to use and best for video and photos"

Geoffrey Lubbock = my real name - unlike the folks who stand behind pseudonyms

Not really sure why you're cross with Apple because MS won't add simple features to Outlook. I suspect you need to reinvestigate the editing features of Photos as they are more extensive than iPhoto. It's always lovely when keyboard warriors want to deprive workers of employment because they have a tantrum. And this is my real name too.

Crazy isn't that Apple hasn't figured out how to share photos from the Share Icon?

So here's quick fix; Click on the photos you want to share in Photos > Drag them into your email in Mail and they quickly imbed into the body of the message.

Open Mail, yes preference it as your default mail program, the click on your photos that you'd like to share in Photos,

and then just drag them into the body of your email message. That works as a quick fix to not seeing Mail as an option in Share.

Exactly the same problem with Apple Mail.

I always use Apple Mail, it's both greyed out and checked when choosing 'More' in Photos' share menu.

But it simply does not work.

Try the media browser in Mail... Does that work? Also what version of Photos?

After feeling just as frustrated about not being able to share my photos from Photos to Mail like the old iPhotos did, l found out that when we update to Yosemite or El Capitan, the share features are modified. To reset them you'll need to do this....

If Share options or Markup is missing after upgrading to OS X Yosemite or El Capitan - Apple Support

Then your our share options will return.

Cheers!

I am a new to Mac user and am using El Kapitan for the first time and wow do I find it frustrating. Beginning to think I made a mistake in changing from Windows. I also have this same problem but have been able to overcome it. I dragged the photo to desktop and then into mail. When the photo is in mail if you right click it then change to icon it then can be received by my wife on Windows as a standard attachment. However the downside it, it only works with one photo at a time. When I tried 2 it just sends the photos in the body of the mail even when it shows as attachments on my Mac.

This is for all those having trouble attaching photos to emails from Apple's Photos app. I use a browser based email service, Mail.com, but it would apply to hotmail and I think gmail as well. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6. I have MS Office so I checked Outlook and it also works there. If I click on the paper clip attachment icon while composing a message, a window opens where I can navigate to the file I want to attach. I go to the sidebar, and at the bottom of the list there's a heading called Media. Below that it shows Music, Photos, and Movies. If I click Photos, it opens up the Photos library and I can see all my pictures. Then I just select the ones I want to attach. The one drawback to this method is that there's no chance to re-size the pictures before they are attached.

The easiest way I have now discovered is to drag the photos to your desktop , then drag them all into an email and send them. This is a simple workaround for Photos not wanting you to share your pic's unless you do it in icloud, in my opinion another ploy to make you have to buy more space from apple. What is wrong with sending my photos to my family ( or friends or anyone) by email. They need to bring this option back but it always seems to be aout how can we get more money from the customer and make them buy something that should be free.

This is a simple workaround for Photos not wanting you to share your pic's unless you do it in icloud, in my opinion another ploy to make you have to buy more space from apple.

You might be on to something there. But can you explain how that tallies with

Drag from the Photos window to the new Mail message window

Using the Share Menu to share to Mail

or

Using the Media Browser in Mail

none of which require iCloud. All of them work here and I don't use iCloud.

I have the new macbook pro 13",Mac OS sierra 10.12.2. I tried dragging the photos from the window to mail messages and they would not populate into a mail message ,I tried this several times to no avail , maybe it's me. I had to put them on my desktop and then put them in an email , I searched for a way to do this and found nothing, until your comment and tried the media browser, that did work , Thank You! However I do find it very time comsuming as I am not very organized in Photos and unlesss I know the spot I am looking for the pictures in I have to look at all the Thurmbnails to find the pictures. I still think it was much easier if I was looking through iPhoto and came across some pictures I wanted to share I could just click share and send the ones I picked , to me it was just simpler. Thanks for the help.

I still think it was much easier if I was looking through iPhoto and came across some pictures I wanted to share I could just click share and send the ones I picked , to me it was just simpler.

You mean just like you can do in Photos? Select the pic and click the Share button?

I think I need to delete this post, I was referring to this

To clarify, I am selecting three simple photos to email to a friend. I have all 3 selected, and then I click on that box (I don't know the official name of the box, but it's the square thing with an arrow pointing up out of it). When I click on that box, *THAT* is where I should see an option to email. But I don't. This is what I see instead:

iCloud Photo Sharing

Messages

AirDrop

Facebook

Flickr

More

The same thing happened to me. Since the last time I tried this I did what you just posted ans presto and now the mail icon appears, you must be magic because it wasn't therre before LOL Cheers!