Clicking the + sign launches the Signature Capture dialogue box again. Use the + and – signs at the bottom left to add and remove signatures. To do this, click on the Pen icon near the top right, and then the Sig icon, and choose Manage Signatures.

You can have more than one signature available or capture a better version of your signature by accessing Manage Signatures. Click on the Accept button to save the signature. Hold the piece of paper up to the iSight Camera, and adjust the position of the paper until the camera recognizes and displays your signature. Now, take out a piece of paper, and sign it. In the top menu bar, go to Tools > Annotate > Signature > Manage Signatures. Confirm that “Save this signature for use after Preview quits” is checked. Open the file you would like to sign in Preview. This will bring up a Signature Capture dialog box.

Then click on the Pen icon near the top right, select the Sig icon, and choose “Create Signature from Built-in iSight…”.Īlternatively, if you don’t have a document to sign at the moment, you can open the Tools menu in Preview, then choose Annotate > Signature > “Create Signature from Built-in iSight…”. If you already have a PDF that you’d like to sign, double-click on it to open it in Preview. Click the Add Signature plus button at the bottom. Open the Preview App and capture your signature Select Preferences from the Preview menu to open the Preferences panel. In this article, we will review how you can use Preview to capture your signature using the iSight camera on a Mac, then use it in Pages documents, to sign PDF documents, and as an image in your signature in the Mail app. As we have written about in previous articles, Preview is a valuable tool in OS X that does not get a lot of press.

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