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
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.