Today I learned about the free Picknik utility which facilitates posting photos to a blog by e-mail.Amazingly, all you have to do if your blog platform or photo gallery is supported, is upload your photo, apply any special effects, and then select save and share to e-mail it, as I have done here, to your blog or some other destination.
Another thing I learned today, in connection with this is that it is, after all, possible to insert an unpublished JPEG image into a G-mail message. Hitherto I had though that only published images could be inserted. Silly me. Just load any image from your desktop into a browser tab or window. Then click on the image and use ControlA to highlight it and ControlC to capture and return to the text line of your outgoing G-mail message and ControlV to pop it in. Yes, the image is re-scalable. Wahoo! I generally use IncrediMail to send pictures, but it is great to know it can be done in G-mail too.
Don't know the URL for local images on your desktop? Just type this in: file:///C:/Users/
That will bring up an index showing your files and directories. Another thing, although I have used Capture Professional for years for screen grabs, and more recently, Screen Hunter, our new computer runs on Vista, which has a screen grab utility built in. To find it just click on your Start button and under All Programs choose Accessories to locate Vista's Snipping Tool. Hey, but Picknik is easier and unless you upgrade to Premium, which I probably will, after all it is free.
Try Piknik for Yourself!
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