Signature/Name on Photographs

[Lori Allberry]

Hi again everyone! I just love 365project!

I have another question . . . .

how do you all go about putting your name or business name, signature on your photos?

Do you add it to each photo with an editor, do you have a file saved of your signature? Just curious as to how others do it?

Thanks so much! :)

Lori

[Breanna Riner]

I have a program called Photoscape. It lets me add text to whatever picture I want, so I just put my intials on there whenever I edit it.

[Karen Mitchell]

I add it using picnik :)

[sally czerwik-hampshire]

mine is added straight to the pic when i export them from picassa that's why it is so simple and plain

[Preston]

picasa here

[Lori Allberry]

@soothingbeauty @minxymissk Wow! what fast responses! Thank You so much Breanna and Karen!
I have not ever heard of Photoscape Breanna, I will have to check that out!
Karen - I use to use Picnik all the time, but have not for a long time! I did wonder if folks used something like picnik for adding the names!
THANKS so much girls! :o)
Lori

[Lori Allberry]

@sallycheese @preston Thanks again for the quick responses! Wow, I love this!

I am in the process of having all of my photos downloaded to Picasa right now, I'm glad to hear you both use it!

Thanks so much!

Lori

[Laura]

I also use picnik. However, my friend just sent me Photoshop elements and I watched a video on how to do it, a few different methods, but I haven't found out completely how to do it. In PS you add it to a batch but as far as what I know only text and no logo. Or by using the brush tool. I'm trying to figure out how to make a logo and text to add. Any suggestions??

[Lori Allberry]

@arrayofblues Thanks Laura!!!! I do have Elements, but do not know much about it at all! Hoepfully somebody will come forward and can explain this more to us! :o)

[Rachael]

@jinximages made an excellent tutorial to make your own watermark paintbrush. It translates very well to gimp as well as for photoshop. Here's the link: http://365project.org/discuss/tips-n-tricks/2798/create-a-custom-brush-for-watermarks

[Lori Allberry]

@wormentude Oh yay! Awesome Rachael! I can not wait to check out that tutorial! Thank You so Much for your help!

Thanks everyone!
I love these boards! :o)

Lori

[Shades of Grey]

@arrayofblues @sugarberry @shortperson2002 Here is a link to different text effects in PS or any program with a layers function:
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/

Here is the specific one I used to make mine:
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photoshop-text/text-effects/texture-text/

I opened a new document in PS with a transparent background. After I cropped the image to just the text, I played with the image size until it fit in my new document (that took the longest) while leaving enough room for a logo type photo. I added a photo in another layer. So I had 3 layers total, background, text, and logo then I merged them. After I was happy with that I followed the tutorial from Jinx mentioned above starting at the marching ants part to define it as a brush preset. Works great, I just adjust the opacity or fill so that the watermark isn't so bold and is just a ghost image. Here is the final product... I have since changed the logo photo because I had to re-install windows and didn't save and couldn't find the photo I used...but I like the new photo better anyway!

[Rachael]

@sugarberry - If you look on my photos, the one I use was made using that tutorial. I got the font by googling "free fonts." There are thousands to choose from. Most let you have free trials, which means you don't get punctuation, but for a signature, you probably don't need it. :-)

[Lori Allberry]

@shadesofgrey Wow! You are full of wonderful information! Thank You so Very Much! I can't wait to try all these ideas out! By the way - I love your signature! :o)
Thanks so much again!!!

@wormentude Rachael - Thanks so Much again! I hope to get some time this afternoon to try out all of these awesome ideas!!! Thanks so much!!!! :o)

Lori

[Shades of Grey]

You're welcome! Let me know when you get yours made up! I definitely want to see it.

[Lori Allberry]

@shadesofgrey I sure will let you know when I get it done! Thanks again!