Currently, iPhoto only lets you send photos via email from within iPhoto if you use the Apple Mail program. For web based email users like Gmail, HotMail or Yahoo email, follow the easy steps in this tip.
- Start a new email as normal in your Gmail, HotMail, Yahoo mail, etc.
- Complete the address, subject, and body of the message as normal as well.
- Look for and click the Attach Files option
- The Select Files screen will appear
- In the lower left hand corner of this screen, click Photos
- Now at the top of the screen, you will see iPhoto where you can click your Events or Photos folder
- Now all your photos appear at the bottom of the screen where you can select the ones you want to send. (Hold down the Command key as you click to select more than one photo)
- When finished selecting your photos, click the Select button
- Once they upload to the email, click Send on your email.
All these steps are illustrated and narrated for you in the following video:
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I viewed your instructions in how to attach iphoto pics to an email account such as yahoo. It was very helpful. I am very familiar with holding down the command button to select several files of choice, but I found that this did not work for me as it does in your video. I can’t imagine what I am doing wrong. Can you? -Dean
I have exctly the same problem – can somebody please offer some advice!
Dean and Gareth…are you following the steps exactly? Where is it breaking down for you?
when I select the photos in Iphoto the command (apple) key is not performing it’s normal function of letting me choose more than one photo to upload. Therefore, I am only able to upload one photo at a time!
Hmmm…not sure what to tell you. Are you using latest version of iPhoto? I will try and look at my Mac and see if I can duplicate the issue or find an answer.
How do you compress the pictures if they are too large to attache?
Are you using the Mac and iPhoto?
Yeah! After trying several suggestions I found in other locations on the web, this one finally worked. Thank you.
what a dork i am. i have been saving my photos to desktop for years since i have web mail. didn’t know i could do it from iphoto. still having issues with video, tho. hard to email from iphoto and have the person on the other end be able to open it.
thanks so much. my dad has been looking for a solution for this for ages and after turning the air very blue your page has provided the solution. Simple and easy! Brilliant!
Step 5 says to click Photos from the Select Files screen. My screen doesn’t offer Photos, it offers Pictures. There are old pictures of mine there, however, I want to get to my Events in iPhoto. Any ideas why Photos doesn’t come up on my Select Files screen?
Thanks so much…. this was very helpful!
i did this before finding this particular site and yahoo just keeps saying, ‘attaching files.’ it did the same thing when i tried upload pages but then i figured out how to do that.
i’m not sure what the trick is here. as i type, it still says attaching files….
Keep in mind that depending on your connection speed, it can take up to 3-4 minutes PER picture if they are resized.
I too do not have a photos option on my MacBook Pro running 10.6 and iPhoto ’09 with Gmail attaching. I see the iPhoto library after clicking pictures, but can not get sub folder or individual pictures. Any suggestions please?
I would love to know how to do this as I refuse to be forced to adding Mail just for sending photos.
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Is this app automatically resizing the pic before attaching.
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the process breaks down for me when it says to hold down the command button to send multiple pictures. it doesnt work. i can however go to another file and attach another picture…but still only one picture at a time.
Are you using a Mac and following the steps exactly?
yes, except when i hit ‘attach files’, there is no ‘select files ‘ option. instead, there are 5 individual files to be checked and it says ‘click browse to select file’. but there is no ‘browse’ on the screen. there is no ‘photos’ in the bottom left hand corner. if i click on ‘select file#1, iphoto appears,and i can click 1 and click choose. then i have to go through the whole process again after clicking on file #2. the command key has no effect.
If you use iPhoto to manage your photos and are using a version of Mac OS 10.4 or newer, this should work. I reviewed the video and can’t figure out where you are stuck. Sorry.