lightroom email preset

Following instructions in the Kelby lightroom 3 book I created a send to email preset. According to the instructions once I set this up all I have to do is select my photos and then export them using the "send to email" preset I just made. Then my e-mail window should just pop up with the pictures in them. So I followed the steps and it doesn't work as seamlessly as he says. Before opening the e-mail program, lightroom insists on exporting the picture elsewhere. The only way to get the e-mail to open is to choose a location to export the picture. I don't want to export the picture to my computer. I just want to send it in an e-mail. Nowhere in his step by step process did it say this would happen and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Stefan

Stefan A wrote in post #13599999
p I don't want to export the picture to my computer. I just want to send it in an e-mail. Nowhere in his step by step process did it say this would happen and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Stefan

Can't be done. The e-mail application has to copy the file from someplace. If you don't want it on your HD, write the jpg to a usb stick or something, although the simplest thing is to write it to your Desktop and then delete it after the e-mail has been sent.

BTW, you wasted your time. LR3 already comes with an e-mail preset.

How exactly would you incorporate any editing you've done to your file(s) without exporting them?

http://tv.adobe.com …-directly-from-lightroom/

Stefan A wrote in post #13599999
Following instructions in the Kelby lightroom 3 book I created a send to email preset. According to the instructions once I set this up all I have to do is select my photos and then export them using the "send to email" preset I just made. Then my e-mail window should just pop up with the pictures in them. So I followed the steps and it doesn't work as seamlessly as he says. Before opening the e-mail program, lightroom insists on exporting the picture elsewhere. The only way to get the e-mail to open is to choose a location to export the picture. I don't want to export the picture to my computer. I just want to send it in an e-mail. Nowhere in his step by step process did it say this would happen and I can't figure out how to fix it.

Stefan

Back when I used lightroom 1, this worked perfectly. Don't know why 3 doesn't do it. According to the Kelby book, what I described is exactly what should happen (and what I used to be able to do). Even if I can't get this to work, it was not a waste of time. I still save steps by now having a preset that automatically places the picture in a new e-mail message. The preset that comes with LR only prepares the picture for e-mail, but you have to manually open a new message and attach the images.

Stefan

Thanks for the video. It filled in the step that wasn't in the kelby book. Must have been in the lightroom 1 book, but not 3.

Stefan

Well...another reason I don't rate Kelby books highly.

It was free, so...

tzalman wrote in post #13600075
Can't be done. The e-mail application has to copy the file from someplace. If you don't want it on your HD, write the jpg to a usb stick or something, although the simplest thing is to write it to your Desktop and then delete it after the e-mail has been sent.

With proper integration into the e-mail client, LR could (theoretically) just hold the rendered file in RAM, or write it to a temporary file somewhere. I can e-mail an Excel file without ever saving it to disk.

There's a plugin for Gmail

http://www.adobe.com …l&loc=en_us&ext​id=1851523

That gmail plugin is great....Thanks

Found this for Microsoft Outlook.
http://sbsutherland.co​m/index.php?view=artic​le&id=47