Digital Watermarking

Do you ever know that watermarking your photos is quite important? Here's a simple way for you to digital watermarking your photos.

Digital watermarking is used to embed information into a digital signal in a way that is difficult to remove. Nowadays photographers such as you would like to copyright your photos so that other people would not simply use the photo as their own. Besides that you also could promote your photography skill to others when your photos are being circulated.

Softwares such as photoscape are good as you can design your water mark in a very stylish manner. Photoshop is also quite good software as many people is using it to edit their photos.

First: Get an image editing software ( photoshop / photoscape/ photoshop elements/ microsoft paint etc)
Second: Open your image file
Third: Select “Insert Text”
Fourth: Type in the text that you want to appear such as “www.simplephotographyguide.com”. Pick the font, colour, position accordingly.
Fifth: save the things you have done or else all your hard work will be wasted.

If you're using photoshop, here is a much more detail steps on how to create your watermark. Once you're satisfied with all your post processing work to your image, click on the “text” button (button with a “T” sign). Click and drag the mouse on the section of your image that you want to add the wordings in. Type in your words and then edit the format (eg. Font type, size, colour, etc) Next click on the text layer (should be the highest layer now) one time and the text will be set it. You should also adjust the opacity of the text layer (how transparent is your words) as you would not want the words to be to strong and steal the focus of your image. Once all this is done, flatten your image (layers >> flatten image) and save your image file. You could also save it as an action so you can keep using it next time.

After a few practice, you should be able to do this very quickly once you have gotten used to it.