How to make or create a Transparent Signature or Electronic Signature Stamp for Adobe or Microsoft Word....
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What is a Transparent Signature?

It is also called an electronic signature and is a signature that can be placed in a PDF or Microsoft Word documents and will look just like YOU signed the document manually! The strokes of your signature will not bound by a white rectangle as you may be using right now.

When you take a normal scan of your signature it is surrounded within a box and the box black out everything under it. Like this...

In a transparent signature or electronic signature only the actual "pen strokes" block out what is under it. It is like you really signed it... Like this...

Also, Adobe allows you to SIZE the signature easily! Your signature will be larger than you send me and you can shrink it down which will make it very sharp and crisp.

I have bought houses and signed many legal documents using my transparent GIF signature. It has saved me hours and hours of travel to title companies and the work, expense, and slow speed of snail mailing.

I remember the first time I saw a transparent signature and I just had to have one. I searched all over and nobody knew how to do it and if they did they were charging $100 to do it! I knuckled down and figured it out myself and am now sharing it for only $30 to have your signature AND initials done and show you how to USE your own transparent gif signature and initials!

Who needs this? Inventors, Realtors, Investors, Attorneys, and other professionals have discovered that they can scan their scan their signature and initials, in color or black and white, and easily turn it into an Adobe Acrobat stamp and even use it in Microsoft Word.

The resulting non-transparent stamp, however, has a white background. It looks unprofessional and covers whatever is in proximity to the final resting place of the signature or initials.

Indeed, when such a signature or initial stamp is stamped on top of documents, the results are not visually pleasing and will not “pass muster” as a legally signed document. I have signed MANY legal documents I have been e-mailed to me and inserted my signature using the methods I discuss here.

To be able to use a transparent signature stamp in Adobe Acrobat, you must first create a GIF file with a transparent attribute or a transparent Photoshop PDF file. In order to do this you must have Adobe Photoshop, which costs about $700. Then you have to configure the crazy program and then learn how to use it. Sound hard? Let me do that part for you... Order now..

We offer a service that will create your easy to use transparent signature AND initials for you for $30.00 typically within 2 working days. All you do is e-mail me your scanned signature and initials (with firm pressure in blue or black ink on white paper in jpg or png format) and I will send you back a GIF file of your signature and initials in the gif format.

Want to try it yourself? Download sample transparent signature and initial files to play with!
In our example we have JohnHancock.gif and JH.gif You can right click and save these files and play with them to see how they work. The raw JohnHancock.jpg can be viewed as well.

If you want to have your Transparent Signature and Initials created for you within 2 business days then please click below and be prepared to e-mail us a nice clean copy of your signature and initials. Make sure your signature has letters that are at least 1/2" high and use a good quality felt tip market to create a strong signature. Do the same with your initials. Do them on a very clean sheet of white paper and scan to JPG or PNG format. For the VERY BEST signature use a SHARPIE FINE POINT (ITEM 13601 FINE POINT) go to www.sharpie.com Do not use TIFF as this format drops out a lot of the quality Some folks prefer BLUE signatures as some legal documents ONLY allow "blue ink" so if you are in that category be sure to get a GOOD blue felt tip marker or a very good blue pen. . I use blue for all my official legal work. You will be e-mailing the images to dave.korpi@gmail.com to get the work done.
For $30 you will get GIF versions of your signature and initials. John Hancock will get these: JohnHancock.gif and JH.gif		When you click this Order Now button you will be brought to the our Take 5, Inc. shopping cart.

Transparent Formats, Transparent Signatures, Transparent GIF's, and Transparency

Only certain graphic file formats offer transparency as an option. The most commonly used graphic file format is the GIF file format.

Note that some scanning software programs can produce a GIF but none, to date, can adequately remove the white background to produce a visually pleasing transparency. This means that if you have a GIF file doesn't’t automatically mean it has the transparency you need for transparently signing your documents!

You will need to use Adobe Photoshop to remove the background in order to produce the transparent signature you require. In order to do this Adobe Photoshop provides a feature that can be used to remove contrasting colors, which is why your signature must be firm and clear. When the wand selects the elements you can choose what to remove. In our case we remove the “background” that is usually white, leaving the black or blue signature.

1. On the Commenting palette, click on the arrow next to the Stamp button.
2. Choose Create Custom Stamp and click the browse button to find the PDF stamp you created.
3. Create a new category for the stamp (or use an existing one) and give it a name. Click the OK button.