Insert Images into Your Gmail Messages
Been waiting for this to become available for ages! With GMail entering it's fifth year, and still in Beta, more and more keeps coming to life with this amazing email service. Being able to insert images into an email now nearly completes the service for me personally, and I'm sure many, many others.
Read what Adam Ostrow has to say about this new development!
Gmail (Gmail reviews), you’re growing up so fast - lately. The email service, which recently added the ability to attach multiple files at the same time and undo sent messages, has addressed another rather rudimentary function of other mail programs: the option to insert images directly into messages.
Like most other recent enhancements, “insert images” is an optional feature that can be found in Gmail Labs (under “Settings” -> “Labs”). Once enabled, you’ll get an insert image icon when composing a message (if you’re in rich formatting mode), and can then select an image either from your desktop or from a URL.
As Gmail engineer Kent Tamura notes, when you send a message to another Gmail user using an image URL, that user will have to click “display images below” to see them. That’s because as Tamura says “Gmail doesn’t show URL-based images in messages by default to protect you from spammers.”
Personally, it’s not a feature I’m likely to use often, because being on the receiving end of many emails that include images, the formatting is often a mess. Nonetheless, perhaps it brings Gmail just one more step closer to finally removing the “Beta” tag from Gmail.
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