Create Stunning Gmail Signatures with Canva – Easy & Professional!

today I want to show you how you can create a  professionall look email signature in Gmail using   canva completely for free if you're new  to email signatures let me give you a little demo   first before we start if I go to compose in Gmail  you can see as soon as I open this up I have an   email signature at the bottom at this point I can  write my message and this will already be there   so I'm going to show you how to create this in  canva and then I'm going to show you how to apply   it to Gmail this is canva and I'll put the link  Down Below in the description so you can quickly

click on it if you've never used before you can do  so many things in canva with design you can even   edit videos work with PDFs and so on but you can  go ahead if you don't have an account you can go   ahead and sign up here you can just sign up for  free I'm going to log into my own account which   is a paid account but what I'm going to show  you today you can do in the free one as well   once you're logged in this is what you should  see and if you haven't used canva before it can   create so many different things from documents  whiteboards presentations video editor as I   mentioned it has AI built into it and the other  thing is all your uh Creations will get saved   inside of canvas so you can access it from any  device even mobile you could put the app on and   the experience will be the same but we're creating  an email signature here today so I can go ahead   and search for that so if I go ahead and just type  email signature and do a search I'm just going   to move down a little bit as I uh start looking  at these are templates which I can modify   and this will save you a lot of time you could  start from scratch I also like using templates   I just want to point out if you're using a free  canva account whenever you see the pro here that   won't be part of the free so if I look at this one  right here there's no Pro that one I would be able   to use on the pro on the free one I do have a paid  for account so I can use any and if you have a an   education account that's hooked up through your uh  education email you can access uh you can access   canva for free with everything as well but I'm  just going to go over here and click on see all   and then it just gives you a different view to see  more of the different uh templates and whenever   you see that Crown remember that's part of the pro  one so what we're going to do what I'm going to do   is just find a free one we can start with even if  I just click let's say on this free one this and   yours might come up differently so you can pick  a different one but if I go and click on it it   will show me more like this so if you like kind  of this design I could take a look at different   ones through here uh so maybe I like this one  right here so I'm just going to click this and   at this point if it's what you would like and this  is a free one here as well I can go to customize   this template and then it creates a copy and it's  ready to start editing in canva or you could put   your own picture and change the information and  let's do that let me show you how fast you can   make changes to this now we'll start on this  side and we'll work our way and just change   this information if I want to change and place my  image or maybe a different image in here what I   can do is if I go over to upload I have all these  different ones that I've already uploaded as I   work with canva but if I choose upload here I can  directly go to my computer and pick an image and   click open and you can see it upload and when this  is gone that means it's ready I want to point out   you can connect to Facebook Google Drive Instagram  Dropbox through here as well once you want this in   place if I click this once it places it here and I  can drag it into place so I'm clicking and holding   and dragging it into the image placeholder or if I  have this selected I hit delete I could drag this   over and just place it right where I want I do  want to point out you can if you click Once on   This if it's just selected once this is where  you can move it around but if I want to adjust   where I am and Center myself I need to choose crop  this is where I double click on it so notice how   it changes but I'm in crop right now this means  I can move it over I can enlarge in this uh to   match it where I want and I can even rotate if it  was wasn't the way you want you can rotate it   through here so I'm just going to go back to where  it was before once you get that all done just   click hit done like that I have some font here uh  this is font this is just a more of a cursive font   if I just click any of this U I can go I could go  ahead and just double click and then type my name   if I wanted to adjust and the other thing I could  do if I click this once I could change the color   to this let's say if I wanted it I don't want  these in this so I'm just going to click it hit   delete click it hit delete now the other thing I'm  thinking is that if you didn't want the black here   if you don't if you uh have the education version  or the premium if I click on this you could hit   edit image I could go background remover and it  will take away the black it does a really good job   at taking this way I'm going to go contrl Z to put  it back I want to point out there are free effects   that you can use through here as well now the  other thing I want to point out under elements we   have let's say shapes if I wanted and I'll just  use this is a free one and if I drag this over   I have this shape here and I can change this to  whatever color I would like so I'll just quickly   change it to a color let's say I place this here  and I'm going to go over about a half and you're   maybe wondering why am I'm doing that if I was  going to click on it I can change the layers   so if I go click the ellipses here layer I  could send to back so if you wanted to adjust   even though it was blank when we started you could  add things to this uh yourself and go through the   different uh the different things that we have  here under elements because we do have a lot of a   lot of different things we could choose from even  if I wanted uh let's say under elements if I type   teacher and I was looking for graphics the these  ones I could go and this is a premium one but   there's other ones that aren't I could drag this  and do the same thing that I showed you before   to do uh if you didn't want to have a picture  of yourself but maybe you wanted one of these   Graphics instead so I'm just going to go back a  couple steps you could do this with photos as well   uh the videos won't work because this is a static  image when it's done so let's say we get this side   all done we can quickly go over here and start  adjusting this information so I could put my name   if I wanted it they didn't use the Caps I could  type it like they did here once I double click in   there it places that information so if I wanted  to be let's say I'm a Content uh Creator and I   could type that information but how fast you can  do this and I can add more as well so if you ever   wanted to have more text somewhere if I want to go  over the side there's text and I could just go add   a heading they do have ones that are already cre  Creed for you again pay attention to the crown but   I could go add this I could go and place whatever  text I want in here change my font color Chang my   font size up through here so all these things you  can keep adding to the template if I wanted let's   say this to be a different color I could go ahead  and make the change uh through here like this so   very quickly to change these I'm just going to go  through and just quickly change this information   to what I want it to be here so I made some  adjustments you can see I'm just leaving the phone   number there I have an email I have my website in  this case I don't want to put an address let's say   I just put my uh YouTube channel and then if I go  in here I'm just going to go ahead and uh delete   this and I'm going to put uh just at teers Tech  because that's my handle on YouTube and I don't   want this image what I want is to have uh the  Youtube symbol so I'm going to go ahead and   delete this go back to elements make sure you take  advantage of the elements here and I'm going to   type YouTube and I'm going to get some different  Graphics here and I think this one kind of matches   here and I'm going to click it once I can align  it and change the size of it very quickly as   I hold on to it notice that I can see how large  it is so I think these other ones must be pretty   close to that and I can bring it into place and  see the alignment in it and I can even change I   notice this one's a little bit different color  so if I wanted it to be let's say red in here I   could make these all that color and I can adjust  the sizes to whatever I need each of these to be   so that was if I was going to say 14x 14 and I can  go through and adjust each of these and adjust the   color the other thing I want to have in place is  let's say my logo and I can quickly go get that if   was going to go uh I have it in projects so  I some people might have it in uploads but I   have a folder in projects so if I go to projects  folders and I have it's just this Untitled one and   here's my logo I could put that in there so I can  move this all around I could size it and place it   where I want to have it here so I'll just for this  I'll just put it here I know it's might not be   graphically suited here but just for purposes I'll  just leave it there and now decided you know what   I want this color and this color to match watch  with any and I can do this with fonts too so if   I click on this click on the color and now if I go  to add a new color if I go and take the Picker   here I can hover over the red from here and now it  will match and I can do that same thing with the   font so if I click it here and then I can go add  a new color even though I know it's there now but   just to show you that it works with the font as  well find the red or whatever color you're looking   for and it will find that exact one so with all  of this and I'm going to keep this pretty simple   here let's say this is all done the way we want  how do we put it into Outlook now well the next   step is to download this so if I click on share  I'm going to go to download here and it's going   to go ahead and hit download now the other thing  I didn't change is that there is a title up here   I could have changed I could have change this  right here to something else and then it would   have been named that but you can just go ahead and  make that change if you want to title it different

let's quickly set this up in Gmail now when you  have Gmail open go up to settings the gear up top   here when you open this up we are going to go  to see all settings under the general tab here   we're going to scroll down and we're looking for  Signature it's towards the bottom and you can see   it right here so right now it says no signatures  you can create more than one also I'm just   creating one in this demo so I'm going to click  create new and for this purpose I'm going to call   this canva and I'll click create that just goes  and gives it a name this is where I could write   any information and I could do it that way as an  email signature but we're uploading the graphic we   created so I'm going to click on the insert image  here and go to upload and select a file from our   device I have a bunch of different ones here this  is the one we just created and I'm going to click   open this uploads it where I can insert it in  now if I click on this you notice you can change   the size of it uh by clicking any of these I'm  going to go back to your original size because in   canva it was created at a good size for an email  signature and then the other thing I just want to   point out is if we just scroll down a little bit  more where do you want to use this is it going to   be for new emails and this is usually where  I go and select my email signature and remember   if you had more than one you could select which  one you wanted so that's going to be canva do you   want it on reply or forward use you can see where  it goes canva or no signature I'm leaving it at   no signature and then you have another option here  to insert the signature before the quoted text I'm   not going to uh click on this one but just make  sure you know that option is there then make sure   that you save the changes now you're all ready  to use it if I go and click on compose you're   going to see it here now if you look closely you  can see if I would to clicked that box this would   have been removed those little lines right there  so I hope you like this little lesson about how   to create an email signature using canva to  make everything look more professional when   you send those emails let me know if it's working  for you and what else do you want to learn thanks   for watching this time on teacher Tech I'll see  you next time with more Tech tips and tutorials