Tips for Emailing Photos Setting Email Preferences You don't use Mac OS X's email program? Me neitherI prefer Microsoft Entourage. You can use iPhoto's Preferences command to tell iPhoto to use a program other than Mail to send your photos. Besides Mac OS X's Mail program, iPhoto can work with Microsoft Entourage, Qualcomm's Eudora, or America Online. To change your email program preference, choose Preferences from the iPhoto menu and click the General button. Then, choose your preferred email program from the popup menu at the bottom of the Preferences window. Tip If iPhoto won't let you choose a program that you know you have, check that you haven't renamed the program's icon. For example, iPhoto expects your AOL program to be named America Online. Exporting Photos By Hand When you email a photo using iPhoto's Email button, iPhoto uses the name of the original photo's disk file as the name of the attachment. Problem is, most of your photos probably have incomprehensible filenames, such as 200203241958.jpg, that were assigned to them by your digital camera. You might want an attachment to have a friendlier file name, such as holidays.jpg. For such cases, export the photo "by hand" and then add it to an email as an attachment. Choose Export from iPhoto's File menu, and be sure the File Export tab is active. Export the photo as described at right. Save the exported photo in a convenient location, such as on your desktop. (You can delete it after you've emailed it.) Finally, switch to your email program, create a new email message, and add the photo to it as an attachment. |