Importing Photos From Your Google Drive using Gmail
Learn how to effortlessly import photos from your Google Drive to your Gmail for easy sharing and organizing.
Written by Julia Ant
Updated at August 19th, 2025
You can email photos from your Google Drive into a photo category of your choice! The following steps will allow you to access and add your favorite school memories to your yearbook account directly from your Google Drive. (Note: You will need to email your images as attachments in order to import to your photo categories.
- From your Gmail account click the "Compose" button to start a new email.
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From your yearbook account copy and paste the email address of your photo category into the 'Send - To' area of your new email message. (Note: example of category email address - (submit+418479@edophotos.com)
- You can access your email address of your photo categories by going to the "Manage" tab and clicking "Manage Photos".
- Click the "Email Photos" button to see a list of your categories and their email addresses.
- Copy the blue hyperlink of the category you want to upload the photos to.
- Next, click on the "Google Drive" button located at the bottom of your new email.
- Browse and select the photos you wish to upload and select the button located on the right side "Insert as: Attachment".
- Then click the "Add as Attachment" button located on the left side.
- Your images will be attached to your email, and lastly click the "Send" button to transfer to your account. (Note: to add a caption to your image(s); enter in your caption on the "Subject" line. You can only add one caption per photo.)
