Creating an Email Signature

[JTCameron29]

Hello!

I am a secondary school teacher in charge of graphic design and have been asked to create a universal email signature for the entire school, based upon one that I had made for myself in Photoshop.
I have a Macbook Pro 16" Retina M1, and what I am finding is that when I go to import the signature as an image to Outlook online, it is massive in comparison to it's size in photoshop. I am also noticing that it looks incredibly blurry on a Windows computer.

Is there a solution to this? Even when I inserted it into this forum, it was massive yet the pixels don't seem that big.

When they are made, I want all staff just to be able to drag and drop it into outlook online and it not look blurry.

TIA

 

[polarwoc]

Hi there,

I am not an Outlook user but a quick glance shows that Outlook does not have any specifications or recommendations. But, lots of sites offer their recommendations and they vary by a lot. Generally speaking, most of them suggest a smaller size in terms of dimensions and size.
Your signature image is 1390 X 765 at 105 KB. Is there any design element that you can reduce/remove? Maybe width can be reduced? The blue bar at the bottom has a lot of empty space beneath the text? Maybe the elements of text can still be placed side by side to reduce height? On a long thread, signature with big height dominates and renders the content secondary.
Some of the blurriness could be because of the automatic resizing that is happening to your signature. Can you show a screenshot of the blurry image?

Just sharing some of my thoughts on the issue. Nice looking signature.

 

[thebestcpu]

Hi @JTCameron29
Here are a few links that talk about Outlook signatures. All three should give you a good idea on how many signatures are created. And yes your image is way too big yet in the links there are suggested sizes to use:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ee5d4f4-68fd-464a-a1c1-0e1c80bb27f2#bk_seehow

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ee5d4f4-68fd-464a-a1c1-0e1c80bb27f2#bk_seehow

Rocketseed Guidelines.

Hope the info in these links is helpful

John Wheeler