Back to basics: Three ways to email photos
If you’re looking to (privately) share your digital happy snaps with friends and family afar, here’s our guide to emailing photos.
From an email account
1. Open a new email in your email account.
2. Click “Attach” (or paperclip icon).
3. Choose photo you wish to attach.
4. Finish writing email and send.
Top tip: Another quick way of attaching photos to emails is simply dragging picture files from your computer directly into an open email message. The photos will appear in the body of the email. This option doesn’t allow you to choose the size of the pictures though and will appear as the original size.
From computer
Note: This only work if you have email program installed on your computer
1. Open the picture you want to email.
2. On the toolbar, click “Email”.
3. An “Attach Files” box will pop up. Select a picture size from the menu. Click “Attach”. Depending on your internet connection, you might want to make the image smaller so it will be easier to send. However, this means the quality of the image won’t be as high as the original image. Medium is generally a good size to send without losing quality.
4. Your computer will open a new email message with the picture attached.
5. Write your email and click send.
From smartphone
1. Open the photo you want to email on your smartphone
2. Tap the “Share” icon, usually located on the bottom of the screen. On iPhones, it looks like a rectangle with an arrow coming out of it and on Android phones, it’s a circle with two arrows coming out of it.
3. A menu will appear with a few options to share your photo. Tap “Mail”.
4. A new email will now appear with your photo in the body of the message. Write your email and click send.
5. Before your message sends, you will be asked what size you want the emailed photo to be. Tap on your preferred choice and send away.