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How do you put a scanned picture (png from Win 8.1) in the body of your email

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I want to put a picture that I scanned from the start screen in Windows 8.1 (I believe it's png) in the body of my email. How do I do this? Not sure that I can find the scan file to do a cut and paste

I want to put a picture that I scanned from the start screen in Windows 8.1 (I believe it's png) in the body of my email. How do I do this? Not sure that I can find the scan file to do a cut and paste

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If you used the 'Prt Scr' button on keyboard to get a screendump image of the desktop, this can be 'Ctrl+V' (pasted) into a new Write message in the composing area. However, this would end up being very large and is not really the best method.

So instead open up a paint program. Startup menu > type 'mspaint' and Paint window will pop up. Paste the image into Paint, perform any editing as required and then save as jpeg in a suitable location.

Then in Thunderbird Write message

  • select the compose area
  • Using the 'Formatting Bar' select the 'Insert' icon and select 'Image
  • or toolbar - 'Insert' > 'Image'.
  • click on 'choose file'
  • locate file and click on 'Open'
  • click on 'Dimensions' tab
  • Select 'Custom size' and 'Constrain'

then choose to reduce the size by: eg:

  • reducing a width from 2000pixels to perhaps 200pixels

or

  • by reducing the percentage from 100% to maybe 10%

Click on OK to insert the image.

Modified by Toad-Hall