After coming across a very interesting service on Technospot, I eagerly tried it and went on to sharing its results with friends through email. But there was a hitch midway: Gmail does not support inline images.
Google Help center says:
Google Mail doesn't currently offer the ability to attach images inline, because we don't support HTML formatting.
That made me wonder how have I been receiving those inline images in Gmail for so long. That means there must me a way out. I finally turned to Google for help: results were not satisfactory. Some results suggested downloading flock browser, then setting up Flickr account.. so on....a process too long for me. I was looking for something plain and simple which I found after digging through more pages on Google.
Here are the step by step instructions for embedding images inside Gmail:
- Upload the image on web server using free image hosting services like MediaFire.
- Open the image located at a web server directly in your browser.
- Click the image with right mouse button and select View image from the menu.
- Hit Ctrl-A; then Ctrl-C.
- Open Gmail Compose Mail window.
- Make sure Rich formatting is turned on in Gmail (It is ok if you see
« Plain Text above editing area(see above image)). - Position the cursor in the editing area where you want image to appear.
- Finally hit Ctrl-V.
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