Scenario
You are creating your email signature and wish to use linked images, also known as web-hosted images. You want to host images in your Google Drive storage and use those in your template.
For more information on using web-hosted images in your signature, see our resources on using embedded images vs linked images.
Resolution
To host images using Google drive:
- Log in your Google Drive account.
- From the menu pane, select +New, then select File upload.
- Locate your image file, then select Open to upload your image to Google Drive.
- Find your image file in Google Drive. Open the vertical ellipsis menu by selecting the icon, then select Share.
This opens the Share window.
- Under General access, select Anyone with the link from the drop-down.
- Select Copy link. The image link is copied to the clipboard. Select Done.
- Paste the link into any Text program, such as Notepad.
Identify the image ID section of the link. This can be found between the final two forward slash symbols in the link.
For example:Copy this ID section of the link.
- In Exclaimer, open your signature template in the Signature Designer.
- Select or add an Image/Logo element in the template. If you are selecting an existing image, expand the Image Source section in the Properties pane. If you are adding a new Image/Logo element, this opens the Image/Logo window.
Under Linked Image URL, enter:
- Paste the copied image ID at the end of this text.
For example:
The image can now be seen in the signature template and in the image preview in the Image/Logo window.
- If you are adding a new Image/Logo element, select OK to close the Image/Logo window and add your image to the template.
- Select Save Changes to save the changes made to the signature template.