Follow these simple steps to learn how to add rich text email signatures with images on to your Gmail messages.

With the announcement of Rich Text Signatures in Gmail Google has brought Gmail one step closer to the mainstream email clients. You can now have a custom email signature in Gmail with rich text and images.

Creating rich text signatures in Gmail is very simple and straight-forward. Just go into “Settings” and on the “General” tab scroll down to locate the “Signature” section. Choose the email account to which you want to add rich text signature.

Gmail will display the rich text editor and on that type the signature as you wish and format it using the toolbar buttons. If you would like to insert images to your Gmail signature you have to click on the little “Insert Image” icon that looks like a photo frame.

Currently Gmail only supports images from the web which means your image needs to be hosted somewhere and you need to provide Gmail with the URL to the image. Once done make sure to save changes.

Now, when you try to compile new email messages you should be able to see the rich text signature being added to your email message.

The ability to add images and rich text to Gmail messages is a really sought after feature. I hope Google improves on this to allow us to upload the images from our computers and help us define a custom size to the image being used  in the signature. In the mean time enjoy images and rich text in your Gmail messages.