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How to eSign a document: convert into digital signature

my viewers often ask about ways that they can create an electronic signature so in today's video i'm going to show you how quick and easy it is using a free online tool to create your own signature in an electronic format save it as a png and it's a transparent png that you can place into your letter templates or anything that you need to for personal use let's take a look the first thing that you're going to do is literally get a blank piece of white paper and a pen and sign your signature on a piece of paper then take your phone your mobile device or your phone and take a photo of that signature and just email it to yourself from your phone once you have that that image emailed to yourself you can click on it from your email and then i am going to actually open up the snipping tool from microsoft and i am going to take a snip of my signature that i signed on a piece of paper and then i'm going to take that and save it as a png file format so you'll notice that automatically comes up with the png file format if not select that and then save that as a png format somewhere on your computer that you can grab all right then what we're going to do is come to this website it's a free online tool it's called and it's a png transparency creator and so in just a matter of a few minutes you'll be able to take that file and make it transparent so let's go ahead and do that we come down here to import file and we're going to select that image and notice that how it looks really gray and so we want to automatically convert that into a transparent png well the software does it automatically online for you quickly and easily automatically just made it as a transparent file so then all we have to do is click save as and download that and then we can save that in the same location we can label it a signature transparent or whatever we want to label it as and then you'll have that electronically that you can use i'm going to go ahead and right click it copy and go into my form and i'm going to paste it and it's a rather large so all i have to do is select it size it down and then i'm going to right click and say wrap text i'm going to put it behind text then i can grab it and place it on a line i can rotate it if it's a little bit off center and place it where i need to right in my document so using the free online tool it's it's an easy way to create that transparent file of your electronic signature then you'll have this that you can copy and paste or insert on any letter template or document that you need to now another question that comes up is how do i get a legally binding digital signature on my form or document or letter and in that case you'll want to consider some of the options out there the different software solutions for digital signatures i've put together a matrix for you that you can download if you sign up for my email list you can download this matrix for free and it's just highlights it shows you four different options out there for uh digital signatures and what their pricing is as of the the date that i looked it up the other day and then a few of the features so if you want to download that matrix feel free you can sign up for the email list that's in the description below the video the vendors are adobe sign eversign and panda doc those are four different options for you to take a look at if you need to get those legal signatures on your documents if you found this video helpful be sure and give it a thumbs up to like it you can subscribe to my channel and click the bell to receive a notification every time i post a new video if you have any questions be sure and leave them in the comments section below and i will look forward to seeing you on the next video thanks so much bye-bye