How to add image to email in Power Automate "Send an email (V2)"

In this video you will see how to add image to the email that you send from Power Automate flow. In this video we will store the image inside a Power Automate variable and then embed it in the email body HTML.
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Content
- 0:00 introduction
- 1:07 course coupon give away
- 1:39 problem definition
- 2:30 adding image file to Power Automate variable
- 6:51 Encoding image to be stored in a variable
- 10:27 troubleshooting the faulty image
- 12:52 Conclusion
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[@AlirezaAliabadi]

In this video I store image directly inside Flow. There are a few videos on KZbin that show you how to add image to Power Automate e-mail, but all of them ask you to upload your image to SharePoint, OneDrive or some other storage. Let me know what you think 🙂

[@iyengar007]

You Sir, God send. Congrats on the 8K subscribers. Thank you for the code. You are kind to share it with fans. And Sir, the session was as good as "A sip of tea and biscuits while watching the rain with smell of wet soil". All to my liking.

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

@@iyengar007 oh my god 🙏 this comment has nice touch of poetry 😊 Thank you. I am glad you liked it.

[@DadBiker13]

Thank you for the video Ali ! I use power automate on my work laptop where I share a lot of images on the body of the email. I have the images saved in one drive and I have successfully been able to send it via power automate. Just a small difficulty that I face, I don’t know how to centre align the image. All the images I have been able to send are left aligned. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do.

[@sambaker81]

Thanks so much! I don't HTML at all and was able to follow along and implement in my own flow.

[@ajlong404]

Very well done! Very well presented! Thank you!

[@laszlogyor6628]

Great tutorial. Thank you.👍

[@anthonyleduc]

Wow. Very simple and brilliant

[@namayoki]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing.

[@user-su4tb6xu5l]

well noted! very easy to understand. thanx.

[@shevan613]

Works really well, thank you!

[@ECHohem]

Despues de muchos videos de youtube intentando poner una imagen en el cuerpo apuntando desde una web o onedrive. Al fin pude llegar a este video con la solucion definitiva. Muchas gracias Alireza!! After many KZbin videos trying to put an image on the body pointing from a website or OneDrive. I was finally able to get to this video with the definitive solution. Thank you very much Alireza!!

[@clacby]

Wonderful trick! Thanks so much

[@MikeR-tz7oy]

Thank you Alireza. This method is extremely useful if you cannot use a saved image (due to limited access) and cannot create a multi-part message (not possible via Send an email (V2)).

[@Argentinian]

Great work, thanks!

[@RaviShankar-ou1ly]

Awesome Alireza ! your video is very helpful. Thank you!!

[@akshaynm]

I was looking for the same thing Ali!! 🙂 Thanks a ton... !!! 😊😊😊

[@ivanm.9748]

Thank you so much! That helped me a lot! Greetings from Brazil

[@pierocardenasbenites8930]

love you Alireza, thank you so much

[@alejandrovr2000]

Thanks it helped me a lot! :)

[@alakshminagasri3011]

Your videos are awesome👏, I am following your udemy courses also. Really very thanks for your videos.

[@victoraguiar1660]

Thanks a lot for sharing this. Believe it or not, this is the third time doing it and I never get it and have to come back to your videos.

[@ricbarri]

Excellent

[@rishiagrawal9613]

Fantastic

[@tajoumaru503]

Thanks for the useful tips on this. How about using PA to embed multiple images uploaded to a MS Form in an email?

[@justerick_9]

i am seeing it when you already have 12.6 K subscribers... growing more...good luck :)

[@barunroyghatak4380]

Nice video Ali 👍

[@sweatshoes26]

This was excellent. How would you embed a second image within the same email?

[@akshaynm]

Hello Ali, I was wondering on how we can add image over an image using PowerAutomate. Best if you can teach that technique too. Many Thanks!!

[@WasanthaMendries]

We highly appreciate if you can explain how to add two coloum images in share point list to power automate email sending.

[@almostatheist1337]

Hi Alireza, thank you very much for the video. I've followed each step, but I'm getting a "maximum request length exceeded" error when trying to save. Any ideas how I can fix this? I haven't been able to find a solution on Google. Thanks in advance.

[@pierrickdefossez3157]

Very useful sir, thanks! I was wondering if the encoding process (jpg>txt) could be added to the flow? This way, no matter the picture you are targetting on a SP library or Onedrive, the flow would do the job for you. If you can encode a targetted file, then the variable you are using in the email would be the string coming from this embed encoding process.

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

When you use "get file content" or "Get Attachment" actions, the content that you get is already encoded string. So that is much easier than what we did. I didn't go there because there are a few good videos on KZbin that explain that approach.

[@pierrickdefossez3157]

@@AlirezaAliabadi thank you! I just tested but the result is the same error you got in your two first attempts : the image doesn't show up but there is a broken icon instead. This time, I don't know if notepad can solve the problem

[@Poryotis]

@@AlirezaAliabadi Indeed! However, is there still another way if you have an image that's not stored in SharePoint or OneDrive but still in MS 365 somewhere? For instance the thumbnails SharePoint creates for an image field? They are typically not stored in any location but generated. Want to be able to encode those.

[@undiaconsusy7322]

@@pierrickdefossez3157 @Alireza Aliabadi me pasa lo mismo solo sale icono roto con una X

[@Worrelpa]

Hi Alireza, great info. Just sharing some of my experience with constructing email with Powerautomate Email and images are so tricky. The base64 encoded image options never worked for me with outlook desktop. Works fine with outlook for the web and other web. Asked email clients such as gmail. Hoping Microsoft work this out with the new outlook one they are working on to get it to web standards. Only reliable way I have found is hosting the images in a publicly available site like the company internet site. As for the emailV2 action it has so many bugs in it. What I ended up doing was constructing the html with a free online editor. Then dropping it into a compose action. Which can be useful for repetitive sections of emails like signature, legal disclaimers and image branding. The output I just drop into the send email V2 action. It just works that way no strange issues when that action switches between its rich text editor and html mode. One of the worst parts about this is that you cannot just create a signature or template in outlook online and have Powerautomate use that every time when sending you emails. That would be so much easier. Thanks again.

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

I am sure you noticed I never switched out of code view in email body 😉 The text editor has lots of issues in Power Automate UI, but I noticed we can minimize the issues by putting HTML elements in variables and minimizing the complexity of tags in the email body. To be honest, I tried to shy away from Send an email (V2) bugs and workarounds. That can be a separate video by itself and I should probably do that. Typically Microsoft reacts quickly when we public shame their imperfections in a KZbin video 🤣 I have one of those for next week, but not on sending e-mail.

[@mkavo]

Hi Phil - I have same issue with the image not rendering in Desktop Outlook but fine in Web, I have tried Alireza's way and other youtube video ways but still not working. Do you know of a video that may help me fix? Cheers!

[@Worrelpa]

@@mkavo only way I could do it was host the images on the internet. Then link to them from there. That works in all. You still have to press the download button to view them in the desktop client but it works.. Eventually the outlook desktop client will be replaced with a web compatible one. Called outlook One It is a work in progress. Though I wouldn't expect to see it being mainstream for a few years. As the current version of it has numerous limitations. Though it is only on preview.

[@mkavo]

@@Worrelpa One way I tried was have the image in Site Assets folder in the SharePoint site and use Get file action, then Compose with a dataUri function then put this in Concat() in a variable to put in the email! , Doesn't work !! Am i using the right functions?!

[@Worrelpa]

@@mkavo the files need to be in a location with anonymous access. So no security Infront of the files or login promos so an anonymous link from SharePoint for each file should work

[@MatthewLCarter]

Thank you for this video Alireza, do you know (being greedy) if there is a way to have text overlay the CEO image? I have a request to make it like a postcard with the CEO saying "Great Job !"

[@user-dh8jh7zy1g]

Hello Ali, This is really awesome. I used the exact flow you mentioned in the video and encoded the image, then added it to the email body. However, the image is still not displaying in the email. Could you please help?

[@jennylin6015]

Very wonderful video and give me more and more inspiration. I have a question that If I want to insert multiple pictures in E mail and I don't know how many pictures , because these were all uploaded by others to sharepoint list, that's are variable. How could I do?

[@Gustavo-uc9rr]

Hi Jenny, it depends on how you wanna trigger this flow. Is it triggered everytime someone uploads an image? If your answer is yes, you can easily use Sharepoint "Get Item" action so it will allow you to dinamically insert the base64 encoded image into the html img tag since this action will provide you with a dynamic variable containing the image content.

[@hasanelabdullah125]

Hi ,I have a question, I am using sharepoint list with about 900 Items.. I made a flow to send an automatic Email if some criteria met after running the flow I don't get any error but no email was sent and I keep getting this info : "ActionBranchingConditionNotSatisfied" what does that mean and how I can get rid of it. thank you very much

[@iamdeepshekhar]

I came across this amazing video today. I also want to enroll to your Power Automate course, how can I avail this coupon?

[@revaya15]

hey thank you for the video! for me it worked but i cant see the picture, it show a little box with an X inside. do you have any idea what can i do?

[@hi_vishy]

I want to add recipient's profile pic in the mail body as well but couldn't do. I was able to insert the image though.

[@cosmincirnu1036]

Hi, how can be resized in mail output at 50% for example? on my situation no matter what size i put in variable the picture is same on email. Thanks!

[@ReginaldNdidi]

Same issue here. I didnt need to use the method in the video to get the image to appear. I simply added the image in the html code the traditional way. However it comes up way too large in the email no matter what i do. Did you find a solution??

[@eliasvargas4948]

Hi, I hope you help me, I am sending an image from Power Apps in base64. This codification has the format required to add to body of email, but when I send an email, the image is cutted, just can see it a line of the image.

[@bc67]

This is brilliant. Thank you! My emails are coming across with the image duplicated though. Have you seen this?

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

Most probably this is the issue kzbin.info/www/bejne/equvpIxvjNuFpNk

[@bc67]

@@AlirezaAliabadi For some reason, when I pasted the text in the Value section of the Initialize variable action, it was duplicating what I pasted!

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

@@bc67 Well, 2+2 is 4, but sometimes 5. Keep it as general rule when working with Power Platform.

[@tajoumaru503]

Thanks for the video. Unfortunately, Gmail and some other web-based email clients don't like base64-encoded images, so those don't display in emails. Currently investigating a solution in which the image file is attached to the email and then embedded from the attachment, which according to many would circumvent that problem. Power Automate doesn't make this easy!

[@kuroilotus]

Hello Alireza, I would like to start by telling you that this was a very educative and fun video to watch! I would like also to ask if you would know the solution of my problem here. What if the image that you want to add to your flow and then to your e-mail was added by the user when it complete a form for exemple. How would you make that turn into an image in the email sent by the user created by the user? Thanks!

[@kuroilotus]

@AlirezaAliabadi I have been working on that problem and I have not found any solution yet.

[@rehaayalp6707]

Maybe some one may have an idea, By the way thanks for this post. This worked for me on outlook desktop. However when opening email under browser (any browser), image shows up as text. If I resend the same copy of the email from outlook desktop email and check under browser for the resend it is OK? any ideas?

[@Gustavo-uc9rr]

Hi Alireza, thank you so much for the explanation.. The only problem in the way you add image to the email body is that it doesn't work for Gmail recipients, it works fine for those receivers who use outlook (web or appp) but if I need to send an e-mail to some Gmail user it doesn't. I'd appreciate if you gimme some hint on how to send an email message containing an image in the body (without storing it on Sharepoint 'cause my organization's Sharepoint is private). Thanks again!

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

You are asking the wrong person. I don't even have Gmail account 🙂

[@ammarasyraf6636]

hi have you get any solution for this . im in the same problem with you

[@Gustavo-uc9rr]

@@ammarasyraf6636 are you going to use only one image for every email or it is going to be dynamically defined (each email will have its own image) ?

[@Vishal-cj8un]

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[@LauraLuisaRosenberg]

Is it also possible to download embedded images in a outlook mail via power automate. I would like to save the embedded images from one email an place them in another email during the flow.

[@toym3n]

Muy buen video, pero de power automante cuando pones que lo envié a un correo GMAIL no se ve la imgen, ¿sabes porque pasa?

[@sunnywaje1810]

I want to resend the mail which I have received but while resending I want my png attachment to be pasted on the body mail and this task is done to be automatically whenever I receive mail.

[@smithfrank2224]

Yes

[@paulavictoriaca]

Hi! How can i go from code view to normal view? Thanks!

[@muhammadzahranramadhan5799]

Hello sir i have a question for this flow. I have successfully created flow just like you, sent an email with embeded photos in email body. But i have this trouble that i dont know how to solve it. If i sent the email to a person who look at the email with outlook, then the embedded image is shown. If the person look at the email with gmail, then the embedded image is missing (they cant see it). Any idea how to solve this problem? Thank you

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

Sorry, but I don't even have a Gmail account. I have no clue.

[@orhanozturk1183]

Hi, How do I add an email my signature (with a logo+text) to the email sent?

[@Gustavo-uc9rr]

Is it a html signature?

[@tharunthaduri8865]

Thanks, it's working but the image isn't showing in Gmail it's showing only in Outlook.

[@Vishal-cj8un]

Did you find any solution?

[@ShariqHusain80]

not working for the file size of 500kb

[@niwo8]

This is great! However if I send an email to someone outside my O365 tenant the file does not come across. Any reasons why?

[@Vishal-cj8un]

I guess that because other email Clients don't support base 64 encoded images.

[@Vishal-cj8un]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWW4dImwjZl_mLssi=aQSA34A5is5Y-Ibq

[@learningeachday]

When I open commandprompt, it autofills the line with "C: \Users\my.name>". I've tried every which way to enter the file path, but I think that little caret doohickey at the end is throwing the whole thing off. I have no idea how to escape the autofill, which means I'm stuck at almost square one of this solution. :( Anyone know how to bypass this to get to the same blank line that Alireza has?

[@AlirezaAliabadi]

Type below line and press Enter C: \Users\my.name>CD \

[@MegaMpbc]

how do i insert gif?

[@Vishal-cj8un]

Lol you are asking too much 😂 I struggled a lot to add images only

[@yassinechmangui4054]

i tested but i have an error msg :( : C:\>Certutil -encode test.jpg test.txt DecodeFile returned The system cannot find the file specified. 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) CertUtil: -encode command FAILED: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) CertUtil: The system cannot find the file specified.

[@niwo8]

Is the test.jpg file sitting in the root of c:\ ? Change your directory to where the file sits. e.g c:\users\yourname\desktop