iPhoto2Gmail

You know that handy feature in iPhoto where you click the Email button and it launches your default email client and attaches a perfectly-sized pic for you to share with whomever you wish? If you use Mail.app or Entourage or Eudora or even AOL that feature works great. But what if you use Gmail as your default email client? You're out of luck... Until now! Juan Leon has whipped up an iPhoto plugin that lets you use Gmail to send photos directly from iPhoto.

Once installed you'll use the Export menu dialog to access it. The only catch, and hopefully this will change further along in the development process, is you lose the spiffy resizing options that the built-in iPhoto Email handler uses. Instead, if your pic is already smaller than 800x600, you just send it "full size." If it's larger than 800x600, then select the "Send Scaled" option and it will shrink it to 800x600, which is generally small enough for you to send to most people.

iPhoto2Gmail works with iPhoto 5 and iPhoto 6 and it's Universal Binary. It's also donationware, so if you use it, consider tipping the developer.

Juan says "I used this as an excuse to get my feet wet with Cocoa and all the neat new Xcode features.This is the result... so far. It is still a very early piece of software, probably has many bugs, and is rough around the edges. I hope to improve on it and that it will be useful to some folks."

I tested it. It works as expected. Makes my life easier. I don't ask for much more than that.

[via Hawk Wings]

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Source: http://notoptimal.net/iphoto2gmail

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Sirish

An exceptional program for people who don't want to use the Mail.app and keep it simple yet still use gmail. Been looking for it for a long time and glad to know it is here. Thanks for all the hard work!

December 30 2006 at 6:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Juan

Hey guys, just saw that my plugin got some "linkage"! I am glad some folks have found it useful. As many have noted, it is certainly possible to use Mail.app to send through Gmail, however I wanted to require as few setup steps as possible for my less mac-savvy friends and family.

Anyway, I'll try to add some content to the website to keep track of known issues and new versions. Thanks again for the positive feedback. Makes the hard work worth it.
Juan

December 15 2006 at 11:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gonzalo

Weeena primo!! jajaja...excelente iniciativa, aunque no soy un usuario de toda esta tecnologÃa q estas desarrollando, mis felicitaciones. no se ve todos los dÃas...mÃ¡s bien, NUNK! ajajaj Un abrazo...

December 09 2006 at 12:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Veronica

Fantastic, exceptional, what a brain, thank you so much!

December 09 2006 at 7:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cvander

I was looking for something like this for a while now.. Great tool.

December 08 2006 at 5:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Charles

Exactly as people have pointed out. If you've got iPhoto, you must be running on a machine where you're at least able to run Mail. In which case just set up Gmail to do SMTP.

Talk about not RTFM..

December 08 2006 at 11:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam Keck

You can do this with only Mail.app. Just set up a dummy account with the smtp information filled in according to Gmail's pop3 instructions, but use a bogus pop3 server name. Mail.app will then happily send mail out with your gmail return address through Google's smtp server.

-Adam

December 08 2006 at 11:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jennie

Nice tip! What about the picture of the kid with the mouse as a cell phone? Is it available in Flickr? Thanx

December 08 2006 at 5:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PalmerDeville

What I'd like to see is a program that allows me to click the browse button on a photo sharing website and in the "File Upload" window have the option of switching to a mini iPhoto view to choose a photo and then select a resolution for the upload. Is there already a feature for this that I'm missing? Right now I have to go to iPhoto and send to email, then drag that email photo to the desktop for uploading to a website.

Is there a better way?

December 08 2006 at 4:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark Brooks

I have no issues exporting photos from iPhoto to my Mail's GMail account. I don't understand why this is an issue.

December 08 2006 at 3:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply