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.
‘Voilà – you’ve learned a New Trick
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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!
It looks cool, I am searching for a news for how to add a image in google signature, finally i got here, thank you.
I use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox so how might I be able to add images to e-mails?
Marial, Please just go ahead and download Firefox. It is free and it is a better browser.
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.
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.
It works….Thanks
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.
Your so welcome! This is the most read post on my entire site!
Here is a better solution “Gmail signature with embedded image (workaround for “Images are not displayed. Display images below”)” http://blog.wedran.com/2010/03/gmail-signature-with-embedded-image.html
Hi
I’ve been looking everywhere for something like this so thanks a million!
I was wondering though, do you know if there’s a way to get the image to attach to the default signature? In other words, to have it appear each time you compopse a message, rather than having to insert it each time?
cheers!
That’s sweet. i’ve been trying to figure out how to do this all day. Thanks for the tutorial.
I think you meant ‘Voilà at the end.
The difference is ‘Voilà’ means ‘see there’, where Wallah means ‘I swear to God’ in arabic.
slight difference (and arguably both work in this case) – just thought I’d clarify
hi there. I succeeded in adding the image to our signature, but there is a purple frame around it. How do I get that off? It was not part of the original photo that I uploaded.
Very helpful post on adding picture to Gmail signature.
Please add a section on how to put picture to the right of the text, pehaps by using HTML code for a table (one row with two columns).