How to email cell phone photos

Get photos out of your cell phone and headed our way via email. It’s not complicated and is actually rather easy because it only involves a few simple steps!

I’ve broken it down to six but in fact, it’s fewer as some are happening on the same screen.

How to email photos in 6 steps

find the Photos icon,
find the photo and select it,
press the share icon,
the select Mail,
enter an email address and subject information,
select the resolution (highest is best)

. . . and that’s it, the email is sent automatically the moment you select resolution! Here are a few photos showing these steps.

1. Find and select the Photos icon off your phone’s screen by lightly touching with your fingertip to open the app.

From your device, find the Photos icon, press to select with a fingertip, and open the app

So from the screen of your phone, find the icon for your photo directory, which is usually labeled Photos. Then just press the icon to select using the tip of your finger and it will open.

2. Next, find the photo(s) you want to share, in this case via email. Once again, just select it by touching the photo with your fingertip.

From within your Photos, find the one you want to upload and select with your fingertip

So from Photos, you found the one(s) you want to share and selected just by tapping it with your fingertip.

3. The next step is to select the share icon – on an iPhone, look for the little square at the lower left corner of the screen, the one with the up-arrow and select this, once again using your fingertip.

Select the share icon – at lower left corner – a small square with an up-arrow for sharing

Note: if you’re using a cell phone with an Android operating system, the share icon looks different from what’s used by an iOS operating system, but it does the exact same thing.

This is what you’re looking for, instead.

So selecting the share icon tells whatever app you’re using what it is you want to do, share it with the world. Specifically, in this case you want to get it out of the phone via email.

So your next step is to touch the share icon, and on an iPhone, it’s at the lower left corner. And as usual, use you fingertip to select.

4. It’s in this step that you actually decide ‘how’ to share the photo.

Turns out you have several methods available, and with an iPhone one of the choices is AirDrop. If you’re at the field standing next to a pal who also has an iPhone (because AirDrop is an iOS app), then this is the one you what to choose because you can give it to him directly without involving the cell towers.

However, in this case, select Mail from amongst the various alternatives, which also include Messages (text), and WhatsApp.

Various alternatives are available to share a photo to the world, Mail is one of them

5. Now the next step is to fill in to whom it’s going, so enter their Email address. Next, and while you don’t have to, it’s also wise to help the recipient by also filling in the Subject line. This is to advise them what the message is about.

In this example, last name is Smith, and for the model, use Extra 260.

Fill in the address field to whom it’s going, and add subject line info like Name and Model

6. Finally, select image resolution. The best of called Original on an iPhone but no matter what, we want the highest resolution available.

And FYI, the phone ‘only’ has the one original image and any reduced resolution you select is generated on the fly when sending by onboard software. Reason ‘I’ prefer the original is we use Adobe Photoshop to work with photos.

Photoshop is professional image editing software and considered a superior tool for the job because it has the resources of desktop workstation versus a canned app and phone CPU brought to bear.

Select the highest resolution, and once you select by pressing with your fingertip, it’s gone

And that’s it, the mere act of pressing to select the desired resolution sends the email automatically to the recipient. You’re done!

Recapping

find the Photos icon,
find the photo and select it,
press the share icon,
select Mail amongst the alternatives,
enter email address and subject information,
select the resolution (highest is best)

. . . and that’s it, the email is sent automatically!

ProTip1: You can send more than one photo if at step 4 you scroll side-to-side and select additional photos, which adds a check at the lower right corner. But in my experience, 3 is the limit before you choke the phone/tower. No clue why, maybe you can send more at a time. Depends.

ProTip2: append a hashtag and number to each message. This, if you’re sending more than one batch of photos. Let’s say you have a dozen photos to send. So to know if any go amiss, if you’re sending three photos at a time it means four messages so within the subject like you append a hashtag and number like this; #1, #2, #3, & #4 . . .

Smith – Extra 260 #1
Smith – Extra 260 #2
Smith – Extra 260 #3
Smith – Extra 260 #4

. . . so if we only receive three then we know a set has gone amiss!

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John