In apple mail there's the image size option to the right. This resizes ALL images in the mail to be that size.
Is there a way to scale images one at a time? I want some that are small and some that are full size.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11), 2015, 2.8GHZ i7, 16GB
My process is that I'm usually copying the images from other apps and pasting them into the email. Depending on the place it is copied from the files can be huge or tiny (and also depends if I copy it from the built in screen or my external ips display - which I find very odd). The support article (Mail (El Capitan): Add attachments) doesn't explain things terribly well.
You can't double click a pasted image and go straight to preview to resize them, because preview complains that it can't save back to the location and prompts you to save a new file. So that's paste to mail, double click, resize, close, save as, tab back to mail, select image in body, delete, drag new image into position ... way too complicated especially since I'm now doing this dozens of times a day.
Is there then a way to paste the image that is in my clipboard to a file on the desktop so that I can then open it in preview and then use the awful "adjust size" function within Preview to change the image size back so that I can then attach it to mail? Easier? Is there an automator way to do this - like can I bind a keyboard shortcut like shift-control-command-v to bring up preview, make a file form clipboard, then bring up the resize tool? I don't know how to do that.
This resizes ALL images in the mail to be that size.
Is there a way to scale images one at a time? I want some that are small and some that are full size.
No, not in Mail with the dropdown option.
You can resize them on your Desktop if necessary by using Preview>Tools>Adjust Size
I was looking for a solution to this myself.
Best I could come up with is to compose the content of the email in Pages (which I really don't use very much).
Doing so will allow you to size your images as you wish and place the text with images as you wish.
When you have the content for your email composed, in Pages - go to Share >Send A Copy>Mail and you will be given the option to make your composed content a pdf file, and will open Mail ready to have the message with your now pdf addressed.
Likely someone else has a better solution.
MtD
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