Editing Tips

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.

HDR

HDR has been becoming more and more popular these days. Ever wonder how to HDR your photo? Read more after the jump.

First of course you must select the photo that you want to HDR it right? But before that, do you understand what HDR is? For a HDRed photo, it will be in high contrast, high saturation and every detail of the detail will pop up. You will need special image for it or else it will be difficult for you to see the difference in it. Thus you will need a medium to high frequency image. What does that mean? It means images with a lot of small small details, the more the better. An example of a medium to high frequency image is as below:

HDR is very in for now. This kind of styling effect will go out of date just like fashion. Usually you'll be able to see HDR in wedding photos.

Second step. Open photoshop then adjust the exposure a little in adobe camera raw. Now make a layer via copy. Change the blending mode of that layer to vivid light. Everything at this point will go ‘supernova’

Now invert that image. Next use the blurring tool to sharpen the images. Use surface blur. It can protect the edges. Put the values at a very high level. As high as possible without creating the halo.

We can bring out more details using the blurring tool. Its actually quite amazing as the image has been inverted. Group photo with a lot of people or buildings with a lot of details is especially good for HDR. We can super detail it and make it high contrast.

Back to the blurring tool. The threshold will control the halo. Halo is like the aura coming out from the object like a ghostly thing. Sometimes you want it, sometimes you don’t want it. Create another layer by compressing and flatten it into 1 layer to conserve memory. Change the blending mode to overlay light. Tadaaa… now you have your HDR effect on your image. Look at the details.

You can also create a mask of you just want to HDR 1 small part. Do not HDR every image as you will get bored of it. Use selectively.