Let them know the Star is You. Watermark your photos!
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006You are an online photo album owner. Imagine you play guitar in a metal-band and combine that with the band’s official website maintenance: prepare members’ photographs, publish photo reports from recent concerts ant tours, send photo-materials to the press, etc.
As usual, there were a lot of obstacles during the concert to take really quality pictures: bad (too bright or too dark, constantly changing and arbitrary colored) light, much motion, inconvenient camera placement, etc. As a result, you’ve made gigabytes of image data, but as a matter of fact, the quality pictures worth publishing on the musicians’ site are really few. And even more, you still need to work them slightly up: remove red eyes, adjust levels and contrast, think about color balance. Finally, having a bunch of images, you upload them to the website and publish in the news: Hooray! New photo from the recent concert available! Enjoy!
Before you go…
Before you go, if you value what you do and especially the time you spent to take and bring your photographs to perfection, do not forget to place a watermark at the right-bottom corner of each image. That will protect your images against illegal use, copying and republishing them without your permission. Additionally, if you watermark resembles the band’s logo, name or website url, that will serve as an additional advertisement.
It’s as easy as pie to add a semi-transparent watermark to your images when Photoshop is your best friend and you are a professional photographer or designer. There are even some ways to automate the whole process (as you remember, you have tens of photos). But there is a problem: you are just a musician and a tiny bit webmaster, not that professional. Even more, it’s a first time you face the problem of placing a watermark to you pictures.
How to?
As for me, I liked Visual Watermark software. It’s as easy as pie: you select a list of photos to stamp, define an image or text to show through your images, adjust watermark position and its transparency. See in the preview box how the photographs will look like after the processing and, finally, press the Protect button. That’s all. The smart program will quickly place the watermark to all your photos.
Protect your images now with Visual Watermark. Watermark your photos! Let them know that Star is You!
