How to Upload Photos From My E-mail Account to a Photo Account

E-mail users can upload photos from their inboxes to photo accounts.

Adding attachments to e-mails allows users to send digital files to another user to download and view. These attachments include word-processing documents, music files and digital photographs. Recipients of these photographs sometimes want to post them in other locations, including photo-hosting websites like Facebook, Flickr or Picasa. The user can do this easily if he has a basic knowledge of Internet uploading and downloading.

Things You'll Need

• Digital photograph files
• E-mail account
• Online photo account

Instructions

Download Photos from E-mail to Hard Drive to Photo Account

1. Open the e-mail message that has the attached photo you wish to post. E-mails with attachments are designated by a small paperclip symbol next to the subject line.

2. Double-click on the attachment hyperlink. In the window that appears, click "Save."

3. Create a new file name for your file in the second window that appears, under "File Name." Choose a location where your file will be stored on your hard drive using the drop-down menu at the top of the window. For easy access, you can use the Desktop or "My Documents" buttons on the left side of the window.

4. Log in to your photo-sharing account. Register for an account with one of these sites if you do not already have one. Find URLs for these sites in Resources.

5. Once you are logged in, click "Upload" to begin selecting photos. Depending on your host, a window will appear or you will be taken to a new screen allowing you to check boxes next to photos you wish to upload. Return to the location where you stored your e-mailed photos in Step 3 to locate your pictures.

6. Click "OK" or "Next" to proceed with the upload. Enter information for the album title, location and date when prompted.

E-mail Photos as Attachments to Photo Accounts for Upload

1. Open the email that has the attached photo you want to post.

2. Click "Forward." This will bring you to a new message template where the subject and body of the e-mail message are the same as the one you were just reading. The "To:" line will be empty. Attachments will also be the same.

3. Register with your photo-hosting site for an automatic uploading e-mail address. Many photo-hosting sites like Flickr and Picasa allow you to e-mail photos as attachments to the sites for automatic upload. This requires that you log in to your photo account, click "Settings" and then "Automatic Email Upload." Input a word that will be used to create an e-mail address you will use to upload photos.

4. Fill in the "To:" section of this forwarded e-mail with the e-mail address you have created with your photo account in Step 3.

5. Delete the body of the message, but do not delete the attached photos. Write in the subject line of the e-mail what you want the photo caption to be. Click "Send," and your photos will be automatically uploaded to your photo-hosting site.

References

• Computer Hope: How do I save a picture from the Internet and e-mail?
• Web Developers Notes: Open, download and delete photos from Yahoo Mail
• Digital Inspiration: How to Download Images from an Outlook Email
• Picasa: Upload to Picasa Web Albums: Email upload
• Flickr: How do I upload my photos?

Resources

• Facebook
• Picasa
• Flickr