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Use Google Picasa to host your Gmail signature

To add an image into your Gmail signature you need it to be hosted, either on a web server or - using this tip - on a Picasa account.

With your Google Apps account, you can sign in to Picasa and start to store images - as long as you are logged in to Google Apps - and your administrator has enabled Picasa - you won't need to set up a new Picasa account. If one of the images you store is your company logo, you can use the steps below to add that logo to your signature.

• Log in to your Google Apps account
• Go to picasaweb.google.com
• Click on Upload and add your company logo (if it is not already uploaded) - ignore the album name for now, we'll do that later
• Click on the Home tab and you will see your new album - click on it
• To the right of the screen you will see a thumbnail of the logo with Only you next to it. Click on edit.
• Under Album information, edit the album name etc and set the visibility to Limited, anyone with the link - save your changes
• Right click on the uploaded logo and select Copy image URL (or Image Location in Firefox) - this will be needed to add the logo to Gmail
• Now, open Gmail and go to your Mail Settings. Scroll down to the signature box and click on the add image icon
• Paste in the image URL you just copied and your company logo should appear in the box next to Web address URL, click OK
• You should now see your logo in your signature
• Scroll down to the bottom and save your settings
• Send yourself or a colleague an email to test it has worked!

Let us know in the comments if you any questions about adding a signature to Gmail - via Picasa or another method. Don't forget, you can also use the Canned Responses lab to embed an image into your signature - and that way you don't need to host your logo on a web server.

Comments/Feedback

Ian Weatherhogg

Which gives faster downloads for public images - Picasa or Drive?

22 January at 10:08 • Reply to this comment • Edit