How to add an image to your Gmail signature
Gmail is a great app but there are a few quirky things about it here and there. One of the quirks is that gmail doesn’t easily support adding a graphic image to your email signature line.
Adding a text only signature is easy. Just follow these instructions: Adding a Text Signature to gmail
But everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why I was determined to add a graphic to my signature image. Enter Blank Canvas to the rescue. Blank Canvas has a Firefox extension that makes it super duper easy to add graphics to your gmail signature line.
Here’s how:
- Install the Blank Canvas add on
- Follow the prompt to restart Firefox
- From Gmail, compose an email
- Select the new button,‘Create Signature’ which now appears beside the ‘From:’ field
- At this point, you’ll need an html editor. Since I use WordPress, I simply created a dummy post in WordPress, then copied the html code from WordPress into gmail. You can also use an online html editor like Red Peach Designs or Real Graphics to generate your html.
- Paste the html into the ‘Signature Html Code:’ block
- Save
There is a slight problem that may drive you crazy because you may think it is not working. If multiple tabs are open, the signature will not be automatically inserted until you switch to another tab and back to Gmail. And at first I did not think Blank Canvas was working because I did not get the icons to the right of the from button. But I went out and back in and there they were.
Wallah – you’ve learned a New Trick
Tags: gmail signature
Jul 12, 2009
Ok, I have no experience writing html, and your help section seems good, but I still can’t get it to work. I have a business card that I have on my facebook page. I used that link within the code dohickeys you showed in your example, but it still doesn’t work.
This is what I am trying to get my signature to look like:
Chad Diller
(image)
Can you help me? My image is found here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2620677&id=96597922749
Thanks!
Jul 20, 2009
It looks cool, I am searching for a news for how to add a image in google signature, finally i got here, thank you.
Aug 10, 2009
I use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox so how might I be able to add images to e-mails?
Aug 14, 2009
Marial, Please just go ahead and download Firefox. It is free and it is a better browser.
Sep 24, 2009
Judi,
Not everyone has the option to use FireFox. In our State the site that manages all Real Estate information requires that users use the MS IE browser (and not version 8.0). The website is coded that way. So every realtor in our state has to be married to Microsoft Internet Explorer if they want access to all the information and features provided. No Choice! I prefer Google Chrome which I think is a better browser that either IE or FireFox.
Oct 08, 2009
Seems to be a good idea but the entire procedure is a bit difficult for me. Is it possible anyways that the picture can come directly to my signature.
Oct 12, 2009
It works….Thanks
Oct 15, 2009
Great add-on but it has a problem. If multiple tabs are open, signature will not be automatically inserted until you switch to another tab and back to Gmail.