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When I select several photos to send, they show up in email slammed up against each other with no room.
I'd like to know how to separate so that I can add text.
If I do them one by one .... well ... that works .... but there should be a better way.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.4
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I am a maroon. I was frustrated because after I attached multiple photos to an email ... I couldn't move the individual photos that were "stuck" together .... side to side. Why? Because ... there was no where to move them to.
If I manually add returns at the bottom of the email ... either before or after I attach the photos .... so that there's actual space below the photos .... for them to move to .... they move just fine and lined up vertically .... with space between them .... to put in text about each photo.
Never occurred to me to have to do this. I can attach as many .pdf files or documents to an email as I want and they line up nice and pretty in a vertical row. They make space for themselves. Photos do not. You have to make sure the space is there or create it after you attach the photos.
SOLVED.
I am a maroon. I was frustrated because after I attached multiple photos to an email ... I couldn't move the individual photos that were "stuck" together .... side to side. Why? Because ... there was no where to move them to.
If I manually add returns at the bottom of the email ... either before or after I attach the photos .... so that there's actual space below the photos .... for them to move to .... they move just fine and lined up vertically .... with space between them .... to put in text about each photo.
Never occurred to me to have to do this. I can attach as many .pdf files or documents to an email as I want and they line up nice and pretty in a vertical row. They make space for themselves. Photos do not. You have to make sure the space is there or create it after you attach the photos.
It really doesn't matter a whit. How the email looks upon receipt is entirely a matter for the email client on the other end. If you want to control how an email looks, lay it out in Pages and make a pdf. and send that.
Matters to me. I'd like to put captions below the pictures as to who, where, when, why the photo was taken.
Yes. I know. Pages or Keynote works but .... it used to be so much elegant ... in the days of Steve.
I understand that it matters to you, and it does to me too. The problem is with the email protocol. You can cheerfully spend an hour laying out your email just so, but unless the recipient's email client has matching settings all they'll get is a lot of poorly spaced text and a list of attachments. Nothing to do with you, or them but a limit of the email protocol which hasn't seen development is donkey's years.
And this is exactly how it was in the days of Steve too. That's part of the problem. It's amazing how many people who invoke his name know so little about... oh don't start me.
I think that Yer_Man's point was that, even if you get it to look good before you send it, the receiver may see something completely different. For instance, the pictures may just appear as attachments to the receiver.
But to answer your question, you can move the curser so that it is between the photos in the email and add spaces there or returns to get them on different lines. The pictures are like letters, and they take up 1 space on a line. You can type before and after them.
Then you don't remember when iPhoto and Mail had postcard functions that let you choose a layout, borders, backgrounds, etc. etc. Then .... that functionality was discontinued and if you wanted it ... you have to trot over to the App Store. I'm not asking for the originality that "used to be" guilty in. I just want some method to separate the pictures so that doesn't look jumbly, smushed together and ugly.
And of course, there is an option to send "windows friendly" attachments which takes care of most of the clones in the world.
Most of the people I send emails to are my friends ... who are Mac users. I'd like to send something nice looking. But I understand that there are "others" out there who don't use Mac ... but I also know how to check "send Window friendly attachments". I read an answer about moving the cursor to separate the photos but so far ... no luck. My only choice is to add pictures one by stinking one .... and despite Yer_Man's comment ... I am old ... I do remember the days of Steve ... and I don't think he would have liked having only that one choice .... or a work around so cumbersome that I might as well had a Windows laptop.
And of course, there is an option to send "windows friendly" attachments
Which has zero, zilch, nada to do with how an email displays in the recipient's mail application. That just strips the resource forks from the attached files. Those postcards were HTML emails, and, of course, you can learn HTML if you want to - but again, unless the other person's client is set up to receive HMTL, you're back to the same problem... And that happened back in Steve's day too. Could you not let the man just rest?
I understand about recipient's mail applications messing things up ... but most of the people I know have Apple Products so for them ... I could send purty pictures to my friends. This is for me ... for my aesthetics ... Steve believed in aesthetics. I don't think he's resting. What was his catch phrase? "It just works". It was not "It just works ... if you do this ... that ... the other things ... oh and learn HTML". We have a difference of opinion but what you are saying is correct ... for the public ... which is probably why they eliminated that ability to send picture postcards. I'm stuck with Apple that is becoming more and more Microsoft. I get it. Now ... can you just let me rest?
It's actually rare these days that you get both "Apple is becoming Microsoft" and "it was much better in Steve's day" from the same person in the one thread. Quite common a few years ago, but rare now. Well done.
I'm old. And btw: Doesn't it annoy you that you have to constantly keep turning off that **** "Game Center" every time there's an update? It's annoying that Apple is starting to implement and lock down things that they "think" I want rather than letting me choose.
Doesn't it annoy you that you have to constantly keep turning off that **** "Game Center" every time there's an update?
No. I turned it off the first time I saw it and have never seen it since.
It's annoying that Apple is starting to implement and lock down things that they "think" I want rather than letting me choose.
There are some UI features I absolutely do think should be optional - the Control Centre is one - and even if it must be there why does it have to have so many modules that I don't use. In 29 years of using Macs I have never mirrored my screen. But for some reason I must have that module. And the others I can mostly access more easily from my keyboards. So I basically ignore it.
BTW there are other email clients if the one you're using now doesn't suit...
I'd be willing to bet a jelly doughnut that it's back on ... if you've done an update. I've toggled it off more times than I can count ... and sometimes ... it even signs me in when I'm not looking. Google ... I'm not the only one. Google Q: Game Center automatically connecting to iCloud
It's not a big deal ... it's just an annoying symptom of the bigger picture that "they" have decided what needs to be turned on ... or not. You can go to control center and delete or add what you want ... and even move them around? I count 20+ options you can place there ... or not. I don't know if there's a minimum that has to live there.
I like Apple Mail just fine. Just don't like that I can't share party pictures more easily ... so I usually send in Messenger.
Solved my own problem. Phew. It was simple ... as it should have been. Hope it helps other folks who have a few OC traits.
Creating space between photos send in email
