Today I did  mass load images INTO a standard RTF (Rich Text Field) in Salesforce. I did it without Visualforce and without 3rd  party applications...however there is a catch...I had to load the images as attachments.

Here's the outline:

Assume you want a Photo on each Contact.

Assume each Contact has a RTF called Photo__c

Assume you can easily figure out which images applies to which Contact

1) Load attachments (with say Data Loader) against your Contacts

2) Take the success file and add a column called "Photo__c".

3) using Excel Formulas get the Photo__c column to be populated like

<img alt="User-added image" src="https://c.na9.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=00PE00000020IrgMAE"></img>

where 00PE00000020IrgMAE is the Id of the attachment.

4) You should now have a file with 3 columns

Id,ContactId,Photo__c

You can copy/paste your fomulas into paste special values, and then delete the Id column if you wish or you can simply ignore that column.

5) Save as CSV

6) Run Data Loader and do an Update on Contact

7) Map ContactId to Id, and Photo__c to Photo__c

8) Done

Known Issues:

1) If you delete the attachment the photo goes missing

2) If you edit the RTF via the UI and replace the photo you have an unwanted attachment on the Contact taking up storage space

But hey! You don't have custom code! And now you have an image in an RTF!!