Emailing from Lightroom
Here’s a quick summary of how to email files from Lightroom:
- The built-in way is to export files as JPEGs to your hard drive, then attach the to an email. Neat, eh? 1990s retro computing enthusiasts line right up!
- To email files directly from Lightroom, see Andréas Saudemon’s Mac-limited export plug-in Send By Mail Plug-in for Lightroom
- For Windows and using an email client like Outlook see Steve Sutherland’s MapiMailer Email Export Plugin for Lightroom
- For those using Gmail on Mac or Windows see Tim Armes’s LR/GMail
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to have File > Send as Email?
I got a very nice reply back from Steve , and he said to use LR 3 with the 2009 version of Livemail .
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Windows Live Mail now insists on taking jpg attachments and putting them on your SkyDrive, and then formatting a “pretty” email with a few sample photos and instructions on how to view all the photos on SkyDrive.
Thought others could learn from this and he recommends using Thunderbird rather then the new Windows 2011 Livemail if you don’t want to use 2009 Livemail version .omment
It seems that Adobe has put such things far down the list as far as LR features. Sure, some things get added with each version but things like email and my prime example, geotagging, keep getting pushed to the next (if ever). In the meantime, plugin authors like yourself, Jeffrey Friedl and Tim Armes say, “Well… I can add that…” and so it happens. The problem is though, by the time (again, if ever) that Adobe adds such features into LR itself, they pale in comparison to the now much evolved plugin. Should Adobe ever add geotagging, it will have to be one amazing addition with killer workflow to step out of the shadow of Friedl’s plugin. Their version of the Flickr uploader is another good example. Just too basic for what I like/need compared to Friedl’s.
I think you make a very good point, particularly when you say how subsequent built in equivalent features (as you say “if ever”) need to be better than third party ones. I’d also suggest that the existence of plug-ins allows Adobe off the hook – or more diplomatically, allows them to allocate resources to other features.
There is a built in way to automatically attach one photo to an e-mail:
– Go to the export window and scroll down to Post-Processing;
– By after export select “Open in Other Application…”;
– Click the Choose… button and browse to the .exe file of your Email application (e.g. C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12Outlook.exe)
The only limitation is that when you select multiple photo’s, only the first photo is attach to your email. In addition, Lightroom still saves a photo in your export location.
Of course I know that, and left it out because of the limitation you mention.
It is indeed bizarre….most would probably email their photos more often than their spreadsheets but the facility is present in Excel but not LR. Strange.