Internet Email Accounts and iPhoto

I have been perplexed on getting internet email accounts and iPhoto to work together. I guess I never really looked into it too deeply. You see, I usually use Apple mail on my MacBook Pro and it is fairly easy to attach a picture through this interface.

But as of late I have taken to using the webmail interface – in my case gmail – but this would apply to yahoo or any other online service. When I wanted to attach pictures directly into an email that I was typing online – I would have to go through several hoops of copying the photo from iPhoto to the desktop and then attaching that file to my message.

It didn’t really have to be this difficult, did it? Come on – this is Apple we are talking about.

So I searched around for a solution and I found one right here – how to attach a picture from iPhoto to a web based mail. Thanks, Rick!

Anyhow in a nutshell, in gmail compose mail screen, click attach a file. In the window that appears, scroll down in the left hand side choice bar until you see the media heading. Click the photos subheading under this and your entire photograph library will be available as choices. Select the pics you want to attach and you are done.

Such an easy solution to using internet email accounts and iPhoto together. And a big timesaver too!