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Email signature photo size and format

Email signature photo size and format

Signature portrait

Mara Jansen

People Ops · Aaavatar

200 × 200 px

PNG

Export

Email size

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Signature portrait

Mara Jansen

People Ops · Aaavatar

200 × 200 px

PNG

Export

Email size

Cursor
Signature portrait

Mara Jansen

People Ops · Aaavatar

200 × 200 px

PNG

Export

Email size

Cursor
  • runs on your Mac · no upload

  • Checkerboard pixel
  • free to start

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  • macOS 14 or later

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  • export for LinkedIn, Slack and email

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same photo, one background

The photo you get. The photo you need.

The photo you get. The photo you need.

The photo you get. The photo you need.

A meeting room and a whiteboard behind her.

A meeting room and a whiteboard behind her.

Cleaned up and small enough to sit in every email.

Cleaned up and small enough to sit in every email.

And the rest of the team on the same background, the same crop, one export.

how it works

From a folder of random photos to one matching team, in four steps.

Drop photos

01

Drop in the photos

Put the whole team in one folder. Backgrounds are removed on your Mac, nothing is uploaded.

02

Pick a background

Choose a preset, match your brand colour, or upload your own.

Fill in body

Retouch

03

Fix the framing

Fill in missing shoulders and align every face to the same crop.

3 sizes

04

Export the set

One click exports every photo in the right size for LinkedIn, Slack and email.

There is no official standard for a photo in an email signature. Every client renders signatures slightly differently, and a few strip images altogether. What works is a small, light file that still looks sharp on a high-resolution screen and does not disappear in dark mode.

Keep the displayed size small. Somewhere around 100 to 150 pixels wide is normal. Bigger than that and the signature starts competing with the message.

Export at twice the display size. If the photo shows at 120 pixels, export it at 240. On a retina screen the smaller file looks visibly soft.

100–150 px shown · export at 2× · under 50 KB

Watch the file weight. This image travels with every single email you send, and it lands in every reply in the thread. Under 50 KB is a reasonable target, and a portrait on a flat background compresses far better than one against a busy room.

Mind dark mode. Some clients invert or darken signature backgrounds. A portrait cut out onto a light neutral background survives that better than one with a dark rectangle behind it.

Be consistent across the team. Signatures are the one place where a whole company’s photos appear side by side in a customer’s inbox over time.

the app · runs on your Mac

features used

Three features that do the work.

Folders

Drop the whole team in one folder and edit them as a set.

Backgrounds

A preset, your brand colour or your own image, the same for everyone.

Fill in body

Restore cut-off shoulders and align every face to the same crop.

FAQ

FAQ

What size should a signature photo be?

PNG or JPEG?

Why does my photo look broken in some emails?

one look for the whole team

free to start · runs on your Mac