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Although Lr pics can be sent using Outlook Express by installing MapiMailer (what an oversight by Adobe!), it's a rather crude pic. At least a key-line should surround even an email pic, ie a black line 3 or 4 pixels wide. I can't see how to do this.

Despite MapiMailer, it appears best to send email pics via Ps. Lr really need improving.

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I'm not sure that I understand the problem. I have Outlook 2''7. Outlook Express is depreciated and now obsolete. It is no longer being shipped with the Windows OS (Windows7 & Vista).
In LR, you can open the Email Export Preset and add Outlook as a Post-processing application. When you do that Outlook opens with the exported file(s) attached
 
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Perhaps, but then, if they start adding support from one email program, there will be complaints that it won't with X email program, and go on and on. Everything's a trade off.

I haven't used MAPIMailer, but have you tried combining it with LR/Mogrify to give you the keyline you desire?
 
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Many thanks, Victoria. I take your point. I suppose I was a bit irritated after listening to Lightroom's Julianne Kost presenting "Email photos from Lightroom" in Help and Support, to find that only Apple users were addressed.

In fact, I really expected to be able to add a border, even just a key-line, without having to move into Ps CS4, which I do currently and once there, I might as well send the email via CS4.

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Export for email doesn't do anything for me. If I add Thunderbird as the application to open once export is finished that's all it does (it doesn't create a Write document ready with the image file as an attachment).

?????
 
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You can have an EMail created by Thunderbird with the exported photos attached by doing the following:


  • In the LR Export Dialog, choose "Go to Export Actions Folder Now" in the Post Processing Section
  • Open the folder Export Actions
  • Within the folder Export Actions, create a new file with a name like "AttachToThunderbirdMail.cmd"
    (choose any name you want, with .cmd as extension)
  • Open the new file with a text editor
  • Paste the following Text into it:
    Code: 
    if %1. == . exit
set PARAMS=[URL]file:///%1[/URL]
:loop
shift
if %1. == . goto send
set PARAMS=%PARAMS%,[URL]file:///%1[/URL]
goto loop
:send
start thunderbird.exe -compose attachment='%PARAMS%'
  • Save the changes to the file
  • Back in LR, choose "AttachToThunderbirdMail" (or whatever you called the file) in "After Export:"
This will open a new EMail with all the exported images as attachment in Thunderbird.

One more word about the command line for thunderbird:
You can optionally add the tags

in the line with attachment=... as in the following example line:
Code: 
start thunderbird.exe -compose [EMAIL="[email protected],subject=%27Test"][email protected],subject='Test[/EMAIL] Mail',body='Hello here I am',attachment='%PARAMS%'
Beat
 
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Wow !!!!!!!

OMG :shock:

That worked a treat !!

Fantastic - thank you *very* much !!!

Kindest regards,

Jez






b_gossweiler said:
You can have an EMail created by Thunderbird with the exported photos attached by doing the following:


  • In the LR Export Dialog, choose "Go to Export Actions Folder Now" in the Post Processing Section
  • Open the folder Export Actions
  • Within the folder Export Actions, create a new file with a name like "AttachToThunderbirdMail.cmd"
    (choose any name you want, with .cmd as extension)
  • Open the new file with a text editor
  • Paste the following Text into it:
    Code: 
    if %1. == . exit
set PARAMS=[URL]file:///%1[/URL]
:loop
shift
if %1. == . goto send
set PARAMS=%PARAMS%,[URL]file:///%1[/URL]
goto loop
:send
start thunderbird.exe -compose attachment='%PARAMS%'
  • Save the changes to the file
  • Back in LR, choose "AttachToThunderbirdMail" (or whatever you called the file) in "After Export:"
This will open a new EMail with all the exported images as attachment in Thunderbird.

One more word about the command line for thunderbird:
You can optionally add the tags

in the line with attachment=... as in the following example line:
Code: 
start thunderbird.exe -compose [EMAIL="[email protected],subject=%27Test"][email protected],subject='Test[/EMAIL] Mail',body='Hello here I am',attachment='%PARAMS%'
Beat
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Nice one Beat!
 
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Glad to hear you got it working, Jez :-)

Beat
 
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Yeah, you can do the post processing trick, and leave the photos someplace on your hard drive that you have to then delete later.

There is a dude (Andréas Saudemont) who made a really cool plug-in so you can email directly from Lightroom skipping the need to actually export the image to a file someplace on your hard drive as an intermediate step.

I have to ask, with all due respect (I love lightroom, it's the only photo management app for me, I couldn't love it more, I know Adobe is a great company, no insult here), what were you guys there at Adobe thinking? How about being able to drag a modified image out of Lightroom and drop it in your mail app and you actually get the modified version???!!!! Either that or a way to simply export to email the modified version as Andréas Saudemont's plug-in does smoothly, with no file clutter afterwards? Drag and drop makes the most sense to me. Why does dragging and dropping an image from Lightroom give me the original unmodified version? That seems like it would be the second choice. Maybe a way to pick on a case by case basis, like when you drag and drop an image somewhere a pop-up window asks "do you want the original or modified version?".

This really is a huge hole in Lightroom. I'd recommend Lightroom to people who are less technical and want to use Lightroom's basic features and then be able to email their photos. This just seems like a total no brainer. Make Lightroom so it can compete head to head with programs like Picasa and iPhoto in the ease of use category. It's already every easy to use and intuitive. Sure, the price is high, but it's relative. Make Lightroom more attractive and the price is less of an issue. If more people want to give you their money that's a good thing. Make them want to do that.

If the Adobe code guys aren't reading this forum how about anyone from sales?

With all respect, I love Lightroom and respect Adobe greatly, but you dropped the ball on this one.
 
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This is a private forum takoateli, so the Adobe guys don't drop in very often. There are some links to Adobe, but your best bet would be to post your request on the Official Feature Request/Bug Report Forum so that it can be tracked along with other feature requests, and so that people can vote on the ones that are most important to them.
 
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takoateli, do place a feature request, I for one will vote for it. The behaviour is rather weird placing an undeveloped file in an email rather than the processed version!
 
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Thanks! I didn't know that. I did it

Victoria Bampton said:
This is a private forum takoateli, so the Adobe guys don't drop in very often. There are some links to Adobe, but your best bet would be to post your request on the Official Feature Request/Bug Report Forum so that it can be tracked along with other feature requests, and so that people can vote on the ones that are most important to them.
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I did. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on that.

Greg
 
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