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April 10, 2009

Gmail now supports inline images. Place images anywhere in your post

Gmail just added support for inline images, so you can place photos anywhere in the text of your post. You need to first enable this in your GMail settings.

Once enabled, you'll get a new image icon in the compose window which will let you insert an image anywhere.

More info can be found on the Official Gmail Blog.

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Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

Comments (25)

Apr 10, 2009
anthony cerreta said...
This is great! I can't wait until they build in a feature that allows you to task people and maybe one for time management.

(I know, some people are just never happy :P)

Apr 10, 2009
Famille Bois said...
thanks for the tip, I use gmail.
Apr 10, 2009
Humpton said...
Gotta say, I'm not all that impressed - with gMail, not Posterous. What I want from gMail is to be able to paste an image inline from the clip board - you know, ctrl-v.

Oh well...

Apr 10, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Humpton Yeah I use copy/paste for rich media constantly when composing email. Also, i love being able to drag and drop from the finder right into a mail message, right where i want it to go....

but that's why I'm a Mail.app user and won't be switching to webmail anytime soon :)

Apr 10, 2009
Michael Lynton said...
Is it just me, or did anyone else notice that this could sort of be done previously? I have been able to copy an image and paste it into the body of Gmail - but only if the image was already on the web. Might depend on the browser, but still...
Apr 10, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
thx for the tip for gmail & the new feature for posterous
Apr 10, 2009
elegation said...
yeah, i thought it was a big deal too for posterous when i read about it on lifehacker.. adding images to posts seemed to be one of the few tedious parts of posting... much simpler now.
http://elegation.posterous.com/attention-posterous-users-gmail-adds-inline-i
Apr 11, 2009
Kahlil Lechelt said...
Gotta love the Labs!
Apr 11, 2009
Aviraj Saluja said...
This is awesome. I had been praying for this for a long time. Thanks for putting it up on the official blog.
Apr 11, 2009
Hakim Albasrawy said...
thats interesting. more motivation to just jump into writing mails online as opposed to client software
Apr 11, 2009
folktrash said...
Neat. Yes, go webmail. Only launched Mail once on current machine and that was to email an EverNote :)
Apr 11, 2009
Thats ME said...
Neat feature- finally need no addons! I'm thinking if I need postbox now.
Apr 11, 2009
Kiesha Jean said...
very cool, thanks for the update!
Apr 11, 2009
Ian May said...
Very useful, and something that has been lacking!
Apr 11, 2009
Charnita Fance said...
Very cool! Thanks for the tip.
Apr 13, 2009
Jordi Soler said...
If you use Firefox you should try the Zemanta for Gmail extension: not only does it insert images but it looks for the relevant ones as you write. Been using it for Posterous during the last months, and it worked great!
Apr 22, 2009
Bex Fishman said...
Very useful - I wish I'd known about this earlier, will def use it from now on. Thanks!
May 13, 2009
Juan said...
Can we insert pictures in comments area? I'm gonna try.
May 13, 2009
Juan said...
Sweet, it worked!
May 18, 2009
roto said...
This was such an awesome enhancement for both Gmail and, in turn, Posterous. It's so great to see you almost immediately supported it, and I started using it without even thinking about it. ;)
Jun 13, 2009
WeeKee said...
did a post with this new feature, Does not seem to work. http://weekee.posterous.com/impression-on-bing
anything that i did wrong?
Jun 14, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Nope, unfortunately Gmail's inline image feature just kind of sucks. We've complained to them, and if you can too, perhaps they will fix it. =)
Jun 21, 2009
sushanth said...
its cool stuff,i am using it
Jun 29, 2009
santanu said...
Is it possible for google to allow user integrate image the way they want to send?
Jul 11, 2009
Jenna.Dee Detro said...
Sooo, if the gmail inline doesn't work (because of Gmail), how can I stick a photo in the body of the post after the fact? Do I have to upload the photo to my own domain name and serve it from there? By the way, loving the gallery via zip feature. AMAZING!

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