Mail: any way to resize photos before attaching/inserting?
One feature I liked in Outlook/Entourage is the ability to resize a photo before attaching it to an email.
I know I can do that if I first go to iPhoto and select a picture, then click on the 'email' icon.
Just curious if there is anyway to do the same thing from within Mail.
Thanks.
I know I can do that if I first go to iPhoto and select a picture, then click on the 'email' icon.
Just curious if there is anyway to do the same thing from within Mail.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by Argelius
One feature I liked in Outlook/Entourage is the ability to resize a photo before attaching it to an email.
I know I can do that if I first go to iPhoto and select a picture, then click on the 'email' icon.
Just curious if there is anyway to do the same thing from within Mail.
Thanks.
I just put together an Automator action that works pretty well. You have to specify the percentage resize ahead of time though.
Originally posted by Argelius
I'm a total Automator novice. How did you do that? When I click on the mail application in Automator, I don't see any available actions that have anything to do with inserting photos...
After three days with no reply, I swear, just five minutes ago I trashed it. Dang dang dang. It was only 3 steps so let me see if I can redo it.
Here is a screenshot in case the file doesn't work:
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Try it and then we can figure out how to access it via right-click from Mail.
EDIT: Basically, first it uses the Mail action to Open a New Mail Message. Then it uses the Finder to let you choose the photos you want (you said they were not in iPhoto; if so we can change that). Next it copies the Finder items so that the originals are preserved before the resize. Then it uses the Scale Images action from Preview.app to scale to 50% (you can change this, or we can try and find a way for the action to stop and let you change it on the fly). Finally it uses the Add Attachments To Front Message from Mail to attach the scaled images to the new message we created in step 1.
When you have a message open, attach a picture. In the status bar at the bottom of the message window there will appear a drop-down menu that will allow you to compress and shrink the image if needed to facilitate the transfer.
No muss, no fuss
You are the best!
No time just now to play with it, but will do so tomorrow.
Can't wait.
Originally posted by VanDeWaals
Or.....you can use Mail.app.
When you have a message open, attach a picture. In the status bar at the bottom of the message window there will appear a drop-down menu that will allow you to compress and shrink the image if needed to facilitate the transfer.
No muss, no fuss
damn apple's brilliance. taking the fun all out of playing with automator
Originally posted by sunilraman
damn apple's brilliance. taking the fun all out of playing with automator
Yeah...I was toying with the idea of keeping quiet and letting you guys try and figure it out....sorry to rain on your geekfest
I haven't even attempted to use Automator as of yet....some day soon I'm gonna sit down and see what I can do with it.
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PS Here's another question. If I am in Mail and click on "attachment" and navigate to my Pictures folder, is there any way to be able to view thumbnails of all of the pictures in a given folder all at once? It's hard to find a particular picture if you don't know its name and can only see a thumbnail one-at-a-time in the third Finder pane.
Or, if you already have a mail message drafted you want to add to, just drop it on that window, of course. I never use the Attach... menu item.