How To Add Signature To Photos Without Photoshop

I don't fifty-fifty know where to begin with the importance of having a watermark on your photos. Whether they are photos of a project tutorial, or family photos you share on your family blog, you demand to protect your images!! Especially at present with Pinterest being all the rage - your images are shared inside minutes.

Your watermark can exist equally "fancy" equally beingness a professional logo, or every bit simple as bones text with your name on it. Either way, take a few minutes and protect your work!! I've been the victim of plagiarism myself, and information technology's frustrating to take someone claim your work as theirs with no credit to you any. House of Hepworths wrote a fantastic post nigh this topic.

See what I hateful? IMPORTANT!! So, if you lot currently aren't watermarking your photos - showtime now!

Lucky for me, I'm a graphic designer. So adding watermarks to my images is not a problem with the assist of Photoshop. I realize not everyone is so lucky, so I take put together and easy mode to create and add a watermark to your photos. I promise it is uncomplicated and will be worth it in the long run!!

Creating a Watermark

We will be creating a logo out of text that you tin can save and add to your photos.

Step 1:

Open a sample photo. Whatever of them will practice. Nosotros volition delete it in a minute.

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Up next to the FotoFlexer logo, select the option to "Load Some other Photo".

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Add some other sample photo. Whatever of them. {Sigh. Yep, again.}

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Your screen should expect similar this at present - with the calorie-free gray and white checkered border behind both images.

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Nether the "Layers" tab {second-to-final one on the right}, click on the tertiary selection to "Select All"

Click "Delete" on your keyboard. Both of the images are at present gone and you are left with a gray & white checkered background. This means the background is transparent.

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Under the "Decorate" tab {third i from the left}, select the "Text" tool.

A white box will pop upwardly similar in the prototype above. Type in your proper name or whatsoever words you want in the text box.

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Y'all volition see a small window for "Text Options" on the right hand side of the screen. Make sure that the box adjacent to "Transparent" is selected to have the groundwork behind your text invisible. If yous desire some words in a different font or size, but add in more text boxes.

I would recommend choosing a font that fits your blog style/design . There are a lot of fonts to choose from, and so I'm certain y'all volition find something dandy! Yous don't need to worry about the text color or the groundwork color options.

Click "Apply" when y'all're done.

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If you want to add a trivial something else to go with your new logo/watermark design, in that location are some fun sticker designs to choose from. You tin can find these under "Decorate" and choose the "Sticker" tool. Color tin exist changed by clicking on the black box next to the "Color" option.

Step 9:

One time yous have your blueprint just how yous want it, click save up at the summit.

Brand certain to choose the PNG format to keep the background behind your logo transparent.

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Adding an Paradigm Watermark

Now information technology'due south time to add your new watermark to your photos!

{If you'd similar a custom watermark design, I am happy to help you design 1 for $10}

Step ane:

{Y'all can create a login if you want to, merely information technology's non required.}

Click on the "Upload Photo" icon {if loading paradigm from your computer} or load your image from whatever of the locations on the lesser if you store them somewhere else.

Step 2:

Your image will now show in the main window.

Click on the "Layers" tab {second-to-last one on the correct} and click the "Add Images" option.

Footstep 3:

A window will come up for you to upload an prototype.

Click the "Edit from My Estimator" push to upload the watermark image you lot created earlier in this tutorial.

*If you have a custom logo, brand sure information technology is a PNG file with a transparent background.

Step 4:

Resize your logo/watermark to fit to your photo by dragging ane of the corners and holding downward the shift key. Yous tin also rotate your image by clicking on the arrow to a higher place the logo. You tin make the logo every bit big or equally small as you'd like.

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Your logo doesn't have to stand out if you don't want it to. To accept it blend in a petty flake to your image, select the "Opacity" tool under the "Layers" tab. Move the slider towards 0 to make information technology more than transparent, and towards 100 to arrive more opaque. Click "Done" when yous're finished. You can select the "Opacity" tool again if you determine to brand any changes.

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Sometimes a white logo won't work for a low-cal colored photo. Piece of cake to change!

Make sure your logo is selected. Under the "Effects" tab, select the "Invert" effect. This will modify your logo from white to black, making information technology easier to run into on lighter images.

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When you're done editing, click "Salve" up by the FotoFlexer logo. You lot can save this in JPG format since you won't demand it to have a transparent groundwork.

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