You’ve seen other blogs and notice that their photos have a “watermark” on them, maybe a copyright (c) or their website, such as www.WorthTheWhisk.com. It’s actually ON that photo… how do you get it there? Here are the steps to do that, pretty simple:
- Open your photo in a photo editing program (I use IrfanView, but there are lots out there). Which means, either double-click on the photo file and it will automatically open in your default program OR right-click, select Open With and pick from your drop-down menu.
- “Draw” a text box where you want your copy to go. That means, pick a top-left starting point, hold down your mouse button and drag the pointer — you will see a box growing there. Let go of the mouse and it sticks.
- Go to Edit. Click on Insert Text Into Selection and a box will pop up with several options. This is where you have to “play” with it all to get what you want – font, color, size of text (subtle vs. large).
- Just play with it, insert your text and if it isn’t right, hit your Undo button and the text will disappear but the box will remain. However, if you click your mouse somewhere else on the photo, the box will disappear, too.
- Once you get what you are looking for, do a Save As on the photo and name it for use on your blog.
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How cool is that? Thanks for sharing that tidbit..I’m always wondering how they get that on there.
Great newsletter today! Do you guys know how to automate this process – is there a software that “batches” text on photos?
Hi Babette – we do a custom HTML for each of our newsletters, the photos we use are first published on our website.
This was important information and thank you for the instructions.
I left this chore for last with so many other important things to catch up while blogging.
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