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 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:30 am Post subject: Photos - watermark? |
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Can someone please point me in the right direction to how I can either watermark or write my website on my photos.
Apologies for this very basic request! I have no idea how to go about it 
Mousie
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kevsboredagain
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:50 am Post subject: |
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It will depend on what software you use to edit your images. If you have none, then you could do it online. Google "online photo editor" and you'll find things like
https://pixlr.com/editor/ which would do the job. This one even does layers so you can edit move your text around before merging and saving.
You only need s simply editor to be able to add text on an image so there may even be some free ones out there people could recommend. I know of Gimp and have to use it at work but it's not the most user friendly.
BTW Not many listing websites notice watermarked images 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:59 am Post subject: |
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What about the Paint or Microsoft photo manager programme if you have one in your computer?
My kids showed me how to do it....haha.
Here's a very technical explanation (lol)....you go to a photo in your docs file, you right-click on it and open it in the Paint or photo manager programme. You can then paint, draw, or type text over the photo and then save it back to your photo files. |
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Mouse
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:51 am Post subject: |
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Thanks everyone! You're stars!
| Quote: | | BTW Not many listing websites notice watermarked images |
Kev you read my mind! I'm planning ahead for the OD changes which are bound to come.
I also managed to get a photo accepted that was a shot of a message left on our kitchen blackboard from guests saying they'd had a fab time. It also had the check in details for our Facebook page 
Sadly I've now changed the name of the page but it has given me an idea to recent it with the correct one (although it's a slight cheat as it will written by me )
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We list on booking where no mention or link to website is permitted. We wanted to protect and know where photos were begin copied from So added Casa Santo Estevo at Booking.com on each one. This was acceptable. Thank goodness because of the amount of partners Booking has we now know where our photos end up.
Look at this lot! http://bit.ly/1oaMuJG
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That is a good idea. I suppose they could twig eventually...or maybe not as the resource needed to approve every photo must be immense.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Mouse wrote: | Thanks everyone! You're stars!
| Quote: | | BTW Not many listing websites notice watermarked images |
Kev you read my mind! I'm planning ahead for the OD changes which are bound to come.
I also managed to get a photo accepted that was a shot of a message left on our kitchen blackboard from guests saying they'd had a fab time. It also had the check in details for our Facebook page
Sadly I've now changed the name of the page but it has given me an idea to recent it with the correct one (although it's a slight cheat as it will written by me )
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I have added a watermark of my website to the lead photos on the listing sites I use (there are several now). The exception was OD which would not accept the photo. This was nothing to do with the watermark itself, but by watermarking a once megapixel image the pixel count was so reduced that it did not reach the minimum pixel threshold required by OD. The watermarking seemed to swallow up pixels - don't ask me why. I used Fotosizer ( http://www.fotosizer.com/ ).
Now off to buy a kitchen blackboard
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Why??? 
It must be the size being used to save the file as after editing. There's no reason whatsoever that watermarking would affect a picture size, apart from adding a bit of detail, which would increase the file size slightly.
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Why indeed! But there it is Kevin, 2.77 MB before watermarking and 897 KB when watermarked. Actually, I can't see any difference in the picture quality and they have exactly the same dimensions and show up as exactly the same picture size on my computer screen. I am not losing sleep over it, mind.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| AndrewH wrote: | | Why indeed! But there it is Kevin, 2.77 MB before watermarking and 897 KB when watermarked. Actually, I can't see any difference in the picture quality and they have exactly the same dimensions and show up as exactly the same picture size on my computer screen. I am not losing sleep over it, mind. |
Compression factor. This is normally selectable somewhere when you save formats such as jpeg. Your editor is probably set to save using a factor which is good for most purposes but you are starting with high quality images with little compression.
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