This may seem like a dumb question...

[njurgensen]

...but I notice when I look at everyone else's photos they have either a watermark on them or your name and copyright info in a lower corner. How do you put those onto your photos? I'm looking to start doing that as well. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[kenw]

it is done with the text tool in a photo editor. I use PaintShop Pro, others use Lightroom, Photoshop etc. Picasa is free from Google and does it as well.

(btw, hold down the ALT key and type 0169 to get the © symbol!)

btw2: there are no dumb questions here!

 

[njurgensen]

it is done with the text tool in a photo editor. I use PaintShop Pro, others use Lightroom, Photoshop etc. Picasa is free from Google and does it as well.

(btw, hold down the ALT key and type 0169 to get the © symbol!)

btw2: there are no dumb questions here!

Haha, alright thank you! I don't take a lot of train photos but I take a lot of weather photos and thought I should start doing that for when I share them on the web. Thanks for the suggestion! I may have to investigate Picasa, just to see if I like it or not.

 

[roee]

I use IrfanView and they have a feature that when you do a batch conversion (which I do when I post photo's to the web to resize them) that you can add text. I use to put a little © My Name on my photos. I haven't done that much lately, but it's an option.

 

[kenw]

and those are some great photos! Looks like it works.

 

[brad_in_omaha]

Remember also, even if you don't copyright them, they are still copyrighted. Any photo you take is yours, its just easier to prove it with the watermark.

 

[njurgensen]

Alright then. Thanks Eric, Ken, and Brad. Your advice and input has helped!