Solved Add initials to photos

I saw this personal photo on Facebook, with the posters initials in the lower left corner. I have been searching how to do this, have found no easy solution yet. Is there a fairly simple way to do this? Thank you kindly. Rusty

This is known as a watermark. It is used to stop people using the image and trying to pass it off as their own work. Programs like Photoshop can do this. Do you use a photo editing software, if so which one?

Here is a free program that does that TSR Watermark Image Software - Photo protection using watermarks, freeware for personal use. from our list here http://www.sevenforums.com/software/215829-free-great-programs-windows-7-2-a.html

Jerry

Thanks for the responses, guys. I have been using Microsoft Office picture manager, as it has suited my needs just fine. I am assuming there isn't a watermark function in this, so I will look into the site you mentioned.

Faststone Image Viewer (which is free) allows you to put watermarks on your images plus you can batch convert a load of pics at once

Will take a look at that, thanks Mr. Poo♣

No probs pal let us know how you get along

The good news is I successfully watermarked one of my photos and posted it to facebook. When I tried to post it here, tho, I got this message-The website cannot display the page

HTTP 500
Most likely causes:

• The website is under maintenance.
• The website has a programming error.

What you can try:

Refresh the page.

Go back to the previous page.

More information

So I took a snip, which did post here. All's good, thanks so much for the help♫

rusty post said:

The good news is I successfully watermarked one of my photos and posted it to facebook. When I tried to post it here, tho, I got this message-The website cannot display the page

HTTP 500
Most likely causes:

• The website is under maintenance.
• The website has a programming error.

What you can try:

Refresh the page.

Go back to the previous page.

More information

So I took a snip, which did post here. All's good, thanks so much for the help♫

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Hi Rusty Post
Good to see you have been successful. So far as posting your image here on the Forum can you let us know what file size your photo was and what file extension was it. Presumably JPG but please confirm? Also how did you try to attach the image?

Aha, Mitchell. Size does matter. I am in the early photo learning stage so it's somewhat Greek to me. I am guessing the non postable size was 1524 x 931, as I read it on the bottom of snipped copy. I reduced it to 1024 x 575 and it worked like a charm. The great thing about digital is the ability to shoot as much as you want and delete what does not work. It's all good. Thank you kindly for your reply. Rusty

I think it is the actual file size not the pixel size that matters as the screenshot shows.



I guess when you reduced the pixel size of your image that reduced the file size. If you want to keep the pixel size you can always save the jpeg to a greater compression. You will loose a little quality but so long as you don't go too far that probebly wont notice on anything but the very highest grade monitor. i don't know what Photo editor you use but when you hit thesave button you should get the choice of saving the image to a certain compression either from 1 to 10 or sometimes 1 to 12. If you save at about half way say 5 or 6 then that will give a reasonable quality with a small file size. This is the way to keep the file sizes down but keep the picture size high when you want to send an image by email!

Good to know, I will be logging this advice into my "photo learning folder." Much obliged.

You can always come back to this Forum if you get problem. if you do that please state which editor you use as it makes it easier to give you apprpriate advice!