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Picasa Series [#12] Watermarking Photos

If you have been following my Picasa Series, you'll know by now what an amazing all-around photo app that Picasa is (and free too!). This class will be about watermarking your photos. Watermarking is the overlaying of text onto your photo to dissuade others from using your work without your permission. Any photo on the internet can easily be saved by others and used in their own pages. Even if you were to go to the effort of programming and disabling the right-click/save-as option, there is still screen capture command that is all too simple to do.
Watermarking then is simply a deterrent to somebody who may be thinking about taking your work. If they take your photo, they also take the text that says it is your photo. Watermarking can be done by putting very visible text with your name and copyright text on the photo (usually in the bottom right corner). This pretty much says "hands off of my work AND I take it seriously." However this corner text is easily cropped off if somebody wanted to remove your reference. So a secondary option that you have is to overlay subtle (transparent) text on top of the main ... more

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