You can now easily add an image to your Gmail signature. The problem arises when you want to add a clickable link to the image in question and take the user to a website. If you want to add a link to an image in a Gmail signature, you’ve come to the right page.
It can come in handy for hyperlinking an image in a signature, linking your website to your company logo, or linking your social media profiles to their logo. For example, Facebook, Instagram etc. You can add logos and link them to your own profiles. When someone clicks on the hyperlinked image, they will be directed to that particular website or email.
Let’s check out how to add or remove links to images in Gmail signature.
How to Add a Link to an Image in a Gmail Signature
There are two ways to add a link to an image in your Gmail signature. Let’s check them out.
Note: You can only hyperlink an image in a Gmail signature from a computer. Gmail mobile apps do not support adding an image to the signature.
Method 1: Create Hyperlink To An Image In Signature Using Gmail Settings
Here are step-by-step instructions for creating a hyperlinked image in a Gmail signature.
Stage 1: Launch the Gmail website on your computer and sign in with your account.
Step 2: Click the Settings icon at the top of the Gmail website. Select See all settings from the menu.
Stage 3: Under the General tab of Gmail Settings, scroll down until you find the Signature section. Click Create new to create a new signature. Type a name to identify the signature, as you can create and modify multiple signatures in Gmail.
Pro Tip: You can also access this section from the mail creation screen. Click the Pen icon on the compose screen and select Manage signatures from the menu. Check out our guide on how to create email signatures in Gmail.
Step 4: Enter the text you want to keep in your signature. Then click the Picture icon to add the picture.
step 5: The ‘Add image’ screen will open. Here you need to select the image you want to add to your signature. You can select the image in your Google Drive account, upload it from your computer, or add it using the image URL. Click on the picture and press the Select button.
We recommend that you add the pictures you want to use to your Google Drive account first, and then use them in Gmail. So you have control. Otherwise, images added from Public URLs may be deleted in the future. Also, do not delete images added to Google Drive after using them in your signature.
Step 6: You will be directed to the Signature section again with the image added to your signature. If you click on the image, you will see the option to change its size. Click the preferred size to select it. As you noticed, clicking the image did not show any link options. For this you have to select the image as shown in the next step.
Step 7: To select the image, simply click and drag as you would to select a text string from right to left. This will select the image
When the image is selected, it will turn blue as shown in the screenshot below. Only when the image is selected, you can add a link to it.
Step 8: With the image selected, click the Link icon in the bottom bar of the Signature section.
The link icon is not visible for some users when they select the image due to the display of image size options. If this happens to you, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + K (Windows) or Command + K (Mac) to add the link after the image is selected.
Step 9: The Edit link window will open. With the web address option selected, add the link to the website you want to link to in the available box. If you want to connect to an email id, select the Email address option and enter the email in the box. Leave the ‘Text to display’ box blank. Click the OK button.
Step 10: You will be taken to the settings screen. Click once on the image to verify if the image is hyperlinked. If the mouse pointer changes to a hand icon, the link has been successfully added. Alternatively, click the picture once. You will now see the connection options. Click Change to edit the link or Remove to delete the link.
Step 11: Finally, scroll down in Settings and click on the Save changes button. Similarly, you can add social media icons and link your profiles to them.
You can also check whether the image contains a link on the create screen. Click the Compose button to compose a new email. On the New Message screen, click the Signature icon and select the signature you want to use.
Pro Tip: Check out 3 ways to paste unformatted text in Gmail.
When the image appears in your email, click on it to see the image link. You can also change the image or remove it completely from your email.
Method 2: Hyperlink to an Image in Gmail Signature Using Google Docs
If the above method doesn’t work for some reason, you can try a workaround. Basically, you need to create your signature with hyperlinked image in Google Docs. Then copy and paste into Gmail signature.
Here are the steps:
Stage 1: Open any Google Docs document on your PC.
step 2: To add an image you want to hyperlink, click Insert in Google Docs, then click Image.
Pro Tip: Learn how to add an image or text over another image in Google Docs.
Stage 3: After the image is added, click on it to select it. Then go to Insert > Link. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + K or Command + K to add the link.
Step 4: Enter the link in the box that appears and hit the Apply button.
Step 5: Right-click the image and choose Copy from the menu.
Step 6: Now go to signature section in Gmail Settings by following steps 1-3 mentioned in method 1. Then right-click on the empty space next to Signature and select Paste.
This will paste the image you hyperlink from Docs into the Gmail signature. If you click on the picture, you will see the connection options. Finally, scroll down in Settings and click on Save changes.
How to Remove Visual Hyperlink in Gmail Signature
There are two ways to remove hyperlinks from your images in a Gmail signature. First of all, when you come to the signature creation screen as seen above, click on the image. You will see the Uninstall option. Click on it to remove the link.
Second, when you add the signature when composing a mail, click on the image and then click Remove.
Link Pictures
This way you add a link in your Gmail signature or remove a link from the image. As of now, it’s not possible to add multiple links to the image in your Gmail signature. Therefore, you need to add multiple images and then link them to their respective websites.
Next: Did you know that you can snooze emails in Gmail so you can take action later? Learn more about the Snooze feature in Gmail at the next link.
