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I would like to be able to directly paste my clipboard image into a Gmail message. I could then just do alt-print screen, go to Gmail compose and press ctrl-v to embed a screenshot, for instance. I'm not talking about embedding a image from disk into my email; that's easily done. I want to skip the step where I have to save it to disk first.

Eudora/Thunderbird support this. There's a program that does this, it's at picturepaste.com, but it's paid (and and the website uses Javascript for no obvious reasons). You can see the demo movie there if it's not clear what I would like.

I would like to find a free alternative, or make one myself, but I have no clue how picturepaste works.

edit: I would like to have the picture inlined, instead of a hyperlink.

Frank Meulenaar
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Unless I'm missing the point, what the OP talks about is perfectly doable. Gmail will paste any clipboard copied image as an inline image in an HTML mail, when doing Ctrl+V.

So do Alt+Print Screen, to copy the active program window as an actual image, and then paste it in the mail body using Ctrl+V, as an actual image.

Canadian Luke
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jake de snake
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Your problem is that unless you store the image somewhere, Gmail has no way to reference it. So what you see as "paste" is actually:

  • store image locally temporarily
  • upload image to some hosting service, or gmail
  • embed image-tag in mail message

So you would need a 3rd party solution for this.

TechSmiths Jing might be what you need.

http://www.jingproject.com

Christian Wattengård
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There is a Gmail lab "Inserting Images". Once you have it enabled, there's a new button to insert images:

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It's not 100% what you want (still not able to paste from clipboard), but you can at least put the images inline in your mail message. You can also use an url as the source of the image.

Gareth
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fretje
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It is not possible to do what the OP asks.

Gmail can not beat fat client email program like Outlook in this regard.

userJT
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I am running KDE and I am able to take a snapshot using KSnapshot, then copy and paste by CTRL+V into gmail in Chrome. The clipper tool in KDE has to have MIME-based actions enable. It is under Klipper configuration->actions.

user299420
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