How to edit / make a Signature in Apple Support Communities ?

There is no signature feature. You may be able to squeeze something into your product details, but they are only available when starting a thread not in any reply. If and when you reach level 3 at 500 points you can set a custom avatar. See Award points, level up, and earn new privileges.

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Although there are five steps below, the first four cover the initial creation of a signature image on a Mac — which only has to be done once. When that's done, to add your signature image to your post, simply drag its icon from the Desktop to the ASC Post or Reply window — see step 5.

1. Scan your written signature or type your name in your desired font and take a screenshot of it via the Grab utility in the Applications > Utilities folder.

2. These forums have an alternating background color of white and pale blue so, to ensure the background color shows through behind the letters of your signature image, it needs to have a transparent background...

• If your signature image is not already PNG, use Mac's Preview app to convert it from JPG, TIFF, etc. to PNG.

• Use the Instant Alpha tool in Mac's Preview app to make your signature image's background transparent.

4. Once that's done, save your transparent signature image to the Desktop.

5. To add your signature image to a post, drag its icon from the Desktop to the ASC Post or Reply window:

Thanx, amigo - I just learned a new one for my "Bag o' Tricks" = Drag & Drop works! (come to think of it, why would it NOT?)

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I don't think it worked on the previous iteration, and it I recall correctly you may not be able to drag & drop two different images into the same post.

Well either memory fails or that bug was fixed. 🙂

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We Mac users have an arsenal of keyboard commands that we can take different kinds of screenshots - based on:

⌘ Command + ⇧ Shift > Press ' 3 or 4 ' > release all three

• 3 = entire display - Win 'PrintScreen'?
• 4 = Selection area crosshair > marquee

  These two save a file to the Desktop

if one adds the ctrl key to the mix -- ⌘ Command + ⇧ Shift + ⌃ Control > Press ' 3 or 4 ' > release all four -- the image goes to the ClipBoard

Here are the issues with the ClipBoard images...

• The 'whitespace' that invisibly surrounds inserted by Camera tool images does not exist - neat for getting the bottom of the image to sit on the baseline of the text
• if one pastes more than one image the editor can get confused
  
  especially in the Advanced Editor
  

To illustrate what happened...

1. Two pasted from clipboard images in the Simple Editor
   
2. Same after invoking Advanced Editor
   
   ⬆ This one was drag & drop as a test ⬆
3. Copy/Paste another image and - UH OH!
   
   Image #1 is replaced in an instant by Image #3 - this is repeatable 100% of the time
4. There does not seem to be any issue in Simple Editor - only if switch to AE or Edit post

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An advanced editor bug then. I nearly always use the camera tool whichever editor I'm using.

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Me too, unless I KNOW I ma doing a one time deal with no likelihood of needing to edit. With Drag & Drop actually working just like the the camera tool (it actually "uploads" the same, filename and all that), I will use it more because its quicker.

FYI - a pasted image files into the DB thusly > https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/542686040pastedImage_12.png

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