We knew you could drag and drop images into Gmail messages, but it turns out you can also just copy and paste them, which in some situations is even more convenient.It doesn’t get much simpler than this: just right-click on any image, hit “copy image”, and then head into Gmail and hit Edit > Paste (or Ctrl+V, even). If you’re using Chrome, your image will pop right into your message and you can send it as normal. It’s nice if you have an image open in one tab and don’t want to move your windows around just so you can drag and drop—two clicks and a keyboard shortcut and you’re on your way.
Note that you can paste images into Gmail in Firefox too, but it won’t work correctly — the images will show up distorted on the other side. So even though it may appear to work, it actually doesn’t. Hopefully we will get to see this functionality in both browsers soon.
Did You Know You Can Copy and Paste Images Directly into Gmail? [How-To Geek]
Fred
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 7:53 AMVery nice. Glad I saw this tip. I just never knew.
Patrick
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 1:31 PMWhat OS’s does this work on?
Zaakiy Siddiqui
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 4:13 PMDoesn’t work for me. Whitson, are you using the “DEV” Chrome channel?
John Carney
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 10:53 PMHey Whitson, maybe you should try these things before you type. Doesn’t work in chrome unless you’re copying images from *within* chrome, and on Firefox 4, the results on Firefox 4 aren’t what you might expect – looks fine in the compose window, but when you receive it you get a bunch of gobbledygook.
Angus Kidman
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 1:32 AMWhitson makes it perfectly clear that Firefox 4 doesn’t work – maybe you should try reading the post before you type.