Tip Thursday

For today’s tip, I’d like to share one way of protecting your images that you post on the web. I have heard of a number of incidents where a photo was lifted from someone else’s blog or profile and used as their own. It is particularly troubling when you post images of your family and kids.

So, one way to deter such people from lifting your images is to stamp a watermark onto your image.

 

1. Open your image and type in your copyright information in white.

 

2. You can leave that as is but I prefer it to be more subtle so it does not distract too much from the photo. So, I change the blending mode to overlay and adjust the opacity, usually between 40-60%.

 

3. Save this as a copy as you don’t want the original photo to have that watermark.

 

Extra tip: Instead of typing in your copyright info onto your photo each time, you may type your info on a new file and save it as a .png file. So, when you need it, simply drag the file onto your photos.

 

Joy

Comments

[Lisa aka Vania16]

Great tip Joy! Somehow having a watermark always makes photos look more professional too :)

[Kaylea]

You can also make this an "action" in photoshop, then create a "droplet" on your desktop, so it will add this to your photos for you...

For photos I plan to post to my blog, that I don't want lifted, I use the droplet to shrink them to 250 to 400 pixels wide at 72 dpi (the height isn't pre-set...you can only designate 1 pre-set since your photos most likely aren't square) and then add the copyright 2007 - kaytebug photography....just like you described.

The droplet saves the web version in a different folder....I have one called blogger....so anything that's ready to post goes in there...

This way I can do a "large batch" of photos, like when I shot the Pee Wee show at the fair for the 4-H club and a newspaper....lots faster this way.

Anyway, that's how I've done it, for a large number of photos...
K.

[Kaylea]

You can also make this an "action" in photoshop, then create a "droplet" on your desktop, so it will add this to your photos for you...

For photos I plan to post to my blog, that I don't want lifted, I use the droplet to shrink them to 250 to 400 pixels wide at 72 dpi (the height isn't pre-set...you can only designate 1 pre-set since your photos most likely aren't square) and then add the copyright 2007 - kaytebug photography....just like you described.

The droplet saves the web version in a different folder....I have one called blogger....so anything that's ready to post goes in there...

This way I can do a "large batch" of photos, like when I shot the Pee Wee show at the fair for the 4-H club and a newspaper....lots faster this way.

Anyway, that's how I've done it, for a large number of photos...
K.

[Kaylea]

You can also make this an "action" in photoshop, then create a "droplet" on your desktop, so it will add this to your photos for you...

For photos I plan to post to my blog, that I don't want lifted, I use the droplet to shrink them to 250 to 400 pixels wide at 72 dpi (the height isn't pre-set...you can only designate 1 pre-set since your photos most likely aren't square) and then add the copyright 2007 - kaytebug photography....just like you described.

The droplet saves the web version in a different folder....I have one called blogger....so anything that's ready to post goes in there...

This way I can do a "large batch" of photos, like when I shot the Pee Wee show at the fair for the 4-H club and a newspaper....lots faster this way.

Anyway, that's how I've done it, for a large number of photos...
K.