How to Add Screenshots and Images in Gmail Messages

Images and screenshots can be added to the email message body in Gmail. You just need to activate a Gmail Labs feature within the email to attach images from your computer to the email message body. And if you want to take screenshots and attach them in the email message body, here is a useful desktop application to do the job.

Add Images in Gmail messages

Adding images in Gmail messages is quite easy. You need to enable the Gmail labs feature called “Insert images” from Settings.

After the labs feature is enabled, start composing a new email message and you will see a new button to add a picture in your email message.

You can upload an image from your computer or simply use a web URL to add an image in the email message. This feature comes in handy when you do not want to separately add the images as attachments and want the image to show directly in the message body.

Add Screen shot images directly in Gmail

There are times when you would want only one application to do the job. If you take frequent screenshots and attach them in your email messages, here is iClippy – a wonderful tool that lets you take screenshots and attach the images in Gmail, Yahoo, WordPress, Blogger, Twitter etc. We have reviewed a similar tool earlier. It’s called  Tinygrab, a desktop tool which lets you take a screenshot, upload it and share the shortened url with others.

Working with Iclippy is simple. First download the iClippy client and install it. Next, sign in to iClippy using your Google account to retrieve the software key (it’s free). After the application is activated, a new sidebar is shown in your desktop to capture images and insert them in Gmail, Blogger, WordPress, Twitter etc.

Now comes the real interesting part. As soon as you capture a screenshot using iClippy, the image is uploaded in your iClippy account and you can embed the image in a new email message, Google docs documents, Blog posts in WordPress and Blogger and even Twitter. The image is copied in your Windows clipboard and you also get a unique URL, if you wish to share the screenshot with others.

Here is a short video on how Iclippy works

The good thing about Iclippy is that it copies both the URL as well the image in your Windows clipboard. So if you want to add the image in an email message or share the URl on a chat window, one hot key (Ctrl+V) is enough to do the job. The application is simple to use and it has a lot of options to choose from e.g extracting text from images, using a scanner, camera or USB to capture the screenshot. However, Iclippy can not be used to capture screenshots of active windows, Menus and pop-ups.

All the images captured with Iclippy are stored in the Iclippy online clipboard and you can access them later if you want. In short, Iclippy works perfect for those who frequently attach images in email messages and wished if they could take a screenshot and attach it quickly in the email message body.