How To Watermark A Photo For Online Publishing
April 9, 2011
Let’s start by explaining what a watermark is. A watermark is a visible embedded overlay on a digital photo consisting of text or a logo. It is extremely important to watermark any photos you publish online, including social media forums such as Facebook. A watermark adds a form of protection to your photos and discourages unauthorized use. It’s not foolproof but it does make it more difficult for someone to claim a photo as their own.
You can download software to watermark your photos or you can use the image editors that you may already have. I use picnik and photobucket.
Take for example this photo that has my embedded crown overlay. {*note*This logo is property of Three Jewels In My Crown}
Here’s how I accomplished the final watermark on this photo.
1. I uploaded my photo and logo into photobucket. In this case, it’s the blackberries from another post I published recently and my crown logo.
2. Select the layers tab. The arrow in the picture below points to where you’ll find the layers tab.
3. Select, “add more photos”. I added the crown logo that you see in the upper left corner. Choose which image or logo will become your watermark.
4. Adjust the opacity of your logo by selecting the opacity button.
5. Finally, click on the “select all” tab to join both layers. Then save to your computer. It’s as easy as that.
Here’s how you can add a text watermark in picnik.
1. Upload a photo into picnik. Select the “create” tab at the top and the add your text. As you can see, I added the text “three jewels, just as an example.
2. When you add your text, the text properties box with pop up. To create a watermark effect, select “advanced options” and “overlay”. Then adjust the fade button to suit the picture. Save as usual. Very easy!
These are two quick and easy ways to watermark your digital photos. I’m glad you stopped by today and I’d love to hear from you. Leave me a comment. What did you eat today? What’s the weather like where you are? Anything really, I just love to hear from my readers!
Crystal Connell
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This is something I need to start doing… I just hate going thru 1 more step. lol Love the new look btw- I had to unfollow then re-follow to update my feed. I’m hoping to make the switch soon too (*fingers crossed).
I really need to start watermarking my photos & this is a great tutorial! Thanks and have a great weekend!
Yay! I love this tutorial. Thank you. I only hope I can figure out how to do it. (You know how computer challenged I am)
Don’t shoot me but….I’m giving you the “Versatile Blogger Award” because I so admire the changes you’ve made to your blog with WP, and I love all the things that you write about. And I think you’re awesome, and so I’m giving it to you. So there! Ha! (but I know it takes time to put a post together and all that, so you can skip that part if you like…just know that I think you’re awesome
ooops…forgot to give you the link to my post where you get the award
http://www.theyallcallmemom.com/2011/04/while-i-was-sleeping.html
That’s going to make things a lot esaier from here on out.
I did it! (I think! You’ll have to check it out and tell me if it looks right!) I still need to come up with some sort of logo…but for now, it’s just my blog’s name on the photo for the watermark.
Here’s the link to my post: http://www.theyallcallmemom.com/2011/04/marked.html
thanks so much for this tutorial
At last, someone comes up with the “right” asnewr!