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Finally, it's starting to feel like summer - the sun keeps making appearances, every street smells of barbecues and shorts and flip flops are liberated from wardrobes across the land.

If you're anything like me, you'll be starting to feel like getting your camera out and capturing those great summer moments.Ìý Perhaps you've been to a Royal Wedding street party and have loads of pictures to share with your friends and neighbours - or maybe you've been on holiday holiday and wantÌý your family to see just how cool you looked wearing a sombrero / riding a camel / braving parascending.

However, there's one simple thing that stops a lot of people - how do you actually attach those pesky images to your emails?Ìý Don't worry - it's a simple trick, and when you've done it once you'll be doing it all the time.Ìý After I taught my mum over the phone I got a sudden flurry of pictures of the family dog in various artistic poses, and neither of them ever looked back.

So how do you do it?Ìý Well, once you've started writing your email look along the top row of options, where you can change the text colour and size, and other things.Ìý Right along that bar there'll be either a picture of a paperclip or a button saying "Attach..." (or a combination of the two).Ìý Click on it and a window will appear asking you to look for the file on your computer.Ìý Find the file, select it by clicking on it once, press "Okay" and the image will be magically attached to your email.Ìý

Once you're happy with your message, click send and your picture will be on its way to the lucky recipient(s).

The process is pretty much the same for every type of email, whether you're using webmail (like Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo Mail) or software like Outlook.Ìý What's more, you can use this method to attach any type of file - not just images.Ìý

If you want to have a practise there are some pictures that you might only want to share with close friends), we've created a rather handy course all about sending emails.

And remember, you can send any questions you want us to answer through our contact form.

As well as working on the WebWise production team, Helen has an interest in short-form video, social media and online marketing.