making a signature in outlook

Hi !

I tried for hours now to make a signature for my e-mails, but can't do it ...

What I did was putting 12 rezised photos together next to each other to make like a film stip style signature. Flattened the whole thing and saved it as " signature.jpg "

Then I re-opened it and saved it for web with photoshop, making sure to add the " html " extension, it became " signature.html "

Then I put the file link ( signature.html ) in outlook's signature dialog box.

When I create a new e-mail, it just says that one or more photos can't be found, etc.... and there's only an empty white box with a red cross at the bottom of my message.

Aaarrgg ! What do I do wrong ?
Thanks for your advices...

oh yeah, I also changed the color profile to "sRGB", as web browsers don't like the " Adobe RGB".

Try looking here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011246501033.aspx?pid=CH010046001033

Thanks for the reference !
It still doesn't work, maybe because I'm using outlook express 6, or I dunno....

Nevermind...

Just for future reference, Outlook Express is COMPLETELY AND ENTIRELY unrelated to Outlook. The two products have developed by different development teams and have different code bases. Microsoft made, in my opinion, a colossal usability mistake in naming them so similarly.

So your subject line implied you were using Outlook, but you were really using Outlook Express. If you haven't resolved the problem already, repost it (probably shouldn't go in "News" though) with "Outlook Express" in the subject.

-barry

the Dandy said:

Thanks for the reference !
It still doesn't work, maybe because I'm using outlook express 6,
or I dunno....

Nevermind...

Click to expand...

I wasn't aware that outlook express and outlook were so different. So yes then, my first message is wrong, as I'm using outlook express 6.

But it doesn't matter, I might get the latest version of outlook soon.

cheers.

I don´t use Outlook, or Outlook Express, so I am not sure what we are talking abouyt. But one thing looks wrong to me: if you save a file as "Save for Web" in ".jpg" format, it is a file with JPEG characteristics, not an HTML file. If you rename it ".html" it looks to me as wrongly labeled - unless I did not understand what you wrote.
I am prepared to be corrected, but I look into this, if I were you.

BTW, given my ignorance in the subject, I would not have jumped in, but there more than a day passed by without problem solving answers.
--
Antonio

http://ferrer.smugmug.com/

No, in fact when I save for the web in photoshop, it becomes an .html document. I first saved the document as .jpeg for storage purpose, but then later, I saved the document for the web as an .html.

I'm gonna check again, maybe I was too tired when I did it the first time

Thanks.