I’m not a Google advocate but they keep on churning out cool applications for us. I have been using Google’s Gmail and one important feature that I thought was missing is how to insert images into the body of an email when composing a message. Previously I tried copy and paste but it never worked. The feature is disabled by default so you will need to enable it first.

Here’s how:

1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. On the top right corner click on Settings. You may notice that I’m not using the default colour scheme.

3. Now select Labs

4. You will see a list of “experimental” features that you can play around with.

5. Scroll down close to the bottom and you will see Inserting images. Enable this feature and click Save Changes.

6. Now compose a new email and you will see the image icon as shown below.

7. If you click on it, it gives you the option to add image from your computer or from a web address.

It’s really that simple!