How to turn any image into a digital signature
Back when I worked in the Business Development team at Cardno International Development (now DT Global), I was often tasked with digitising signatures from photographs and scans that had been sent to us.
I used Photoshop at the time, but this is a skill that anybody can learn in under 2 minutes with free online software.
By using the Threshold feature in Photopea we're able to get rid of the pesky shades of grey noise in a photo and extract a perfectly crisp and transparent digital signature.
If you're working in HR, Business Development, Operations, responsible for managing signed documents, or just want to digitise your own signature, check out this super quick tutorial.
In this quick video tutorial, I show you the simple steps to:
Go from this:
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