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Every image in a HireData email comes from the Media Library: your logo, a header photo, a background, or the small social icons in your signature. You open the Media Library from any image field in the email editor, upload your file once, and reuse it in every template. Each image also gets its own public URL, which is what you need when a signature or block asks for an image link.

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Step 1: Open the Media Library

Open an email template in Settings > Emails, then click any image field in the editor. Select a section and its panel carries Background image with a Choose image button, and an image block or a signature picture opens the same library. The Section settings panel with Background color above a Background image field holding a Choose image button The Media Library opens as a pop-up with two tabs.
  • Home is the media stored in your workspace, including everything you or a colleague uploads. It shows the item count, with Show and the page numbers at the bottom to work through a long library.
  • Fields is the images that come from a variable, such as your brand’s avatar, banner, and logo, and the sender’s photo. These stay dynamic: they follow whichever brand or sender the automation uses when the email is sent.
The Media Library pop-up header with the Home and Fields tabs, a Search box, an Upload media button, and a count reading 42 items

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Step 2: Upload your image

Click Upload media in the top-right corner of the Media Library and select the file from your device. The image appears in the grid straight away and stays available for every other template in your workspace, so you only upload each logo or icon once.
Which file to upload:
  • Use PNG with a transparent background for logos and icons, so they look right on any background colour.
  • Choose a dark version of your logo. Most email clients use a white background, and a light logo disappears on it.
  • Upload icons at roughly twice the size you want them displayed (for example 64 x 64 px for a 32 px signature icon) so they stay sharp on high-resolution screens.
  • Keep files small (under a few hundred KB). Heavy images slow the email down and can hurt deliverability.

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Step 3: Add a title and alt text

Click an image in the grid to open its details on the right.
  • Title — the name you and your colleagues use to find the image back. An upload arrives named after the file, so image.png is worth renaming.
  • Alt text — the text shown when the image cannot load, and the text a screen reader reads out. If you leave it empty, HireData falls back to the image title.
Under More info you will find the image’s Id and Mime type. The details card for an uploaded image, with the share and close buttons beside the title, the Description and More info tabs, a Title reading image.png, and an empty Alt text box noting that it falls back to the image title
Both boxes are read-only on the Fields tab. A picture that comes from a variable takes its title and its alt text from the variable, so an image sourced that way cannot be given alt text of its own. Only an upload on the Home tab can.
Many recipients block images by default, and some corporate mail clients never load them at all. Alt text is what they see instead, so write something meaningful — “HireData logo” rather than “image1”.

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Step 4: Use the image in your email

With the image selected, click Add media to field at the bottom of the details panel. The image is placed in the field you opened the Media Library from, and the pop-up closes. Save the template and use the preview or a test email to check how the image renders before you use the template in an automation.

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Step 5: Copy the image URL (for signature icons)

Some places ask for an image link instead of a file. Social icons in a signature are the usual example. Every image in the Media Library has its own public URL:
  1. Open the image in the Media Library.
  2. Click the share icon in the top-right corner of the details panel.
  3. A URL Copied confirmation appears. The link is now on your clipboard, and Open URL lets you check it in a new tab.
  4. Paste the link wherever the image URL is asked for.
The URL Copied notification with an Open URL button beside it
This URL is public: anyone who has the link can open the image. Only upload images that you are happy to have on the open internet — no candidate documents, ID scans, or anything else confidential.

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Icons in your email signature

Your signature is part of the email template, so signature images work the same way as any other image:
  1. Upload the icons you want to use (for example LinkedIn, Instagram, or a certification badge) via Upload media.
  2. Click the signature block in the email editor and select the image element you want to fill.
  3. Pick the icon from the Media Library and click Add media to field, or paste the image URL if the element asks for a link.
Keep signature icons to a maximum of three or four, all the same size, and give each one alt text (“LinkedIn”). A signature full of images looks like a newsletter to spam filters.
Your brand’s logo, banner, and avatar do not belong in the signature as uploaded images. Set them once in Settings > Brands, and every template that uses that brand picks them up automatically. See Brands.

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Good to know

  • The Media Library is shared across your workspace: an image one colleague uploads is available to everyone building templates.
  • Images you add through the Fields tab (brand avatar, banner, logo, sender photo) stay dynamic. Change the logo in Settings > Brands and every email using that brand updates automatically, with no need to touch the templates.
  • Always send yourself a test email before putting a template live. Image rendering differs between Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail.