adding name with copywrite sign to photos

Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Bermuda

Good day all
Can anyone help me...I am new at this. I want to add my name to the photos I take...for example...Photos by Johnster (c). I want to put the copywrite sign after my name. I am using Microsoft Office Picture Manager or Picasa2. I cant do that in those programs please advise in what photo program to use.

Many thanks
Johnster

Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 175 Location: Midwest

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with either programs. For me, I use photoshop. What I do is I have my logo as an image and then simply paste it onto photos using layers. This is done using actions and usually batched. However, I know others on here will recommend saving your logo as a brush. Either way works.

So for you, I'd recommend saving your logo and (c) as a .png with transparent white, then just pasting it onto images. Hope I helped somewhat.

Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Bermuda

Thanks...I will give that a try

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:28 am

And then ask yourself why you want to do this. Promo?

Often these logos detract from the picture. If you are worried about theft, forget it. Unless you put the logo dead center, thieves will crop your logo out anyway.

My logo is printed on the back of prints.

Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 58 Location: Clearwater, FL

Johnster,
The new Adobe Lightroom has this feature, you can add your logo and copyright to just one photo or to every photo on your system.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:31 am

dwp99 wrote:

Johnster,
The new Adobe Lightroom has this feature, you can add your logo and copyright to just one photo or to every photo on your system.

dwp99,

Where is this done? Are you talking about the addition of this info in the metadata or on the face of the image itself? I would like to know how to add it to the face of the image itself in a batch mode but have it always be the same size relative to the rest of the image. So if I crop an image, or it is a smaller resolution I want the copyright/name to be the same relative size no matter the resolution/size.

Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 43 Location: USA

with the text tool,
Hold down Alt, while typing 0169
©© ©

Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 58 Location: Clearwater, FL

Hi Dermit,
Sorry I'm taking so long to respond.

I've been playing around in Lightroom and yes you can add a copyright to all your photos. It is done in the Metadata but will print out on the photo if you like.

Under Metadata Click new then write in what you would like to have for a copyright in the Preset Name line. Use option+G on a mac or Alt + 0169 on the numberpad on a PC for the copyright symbol. copy the same info into the caption line and click create.

I found that when you are ready click on the print tab in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Click the Overlays tab check the Identity Plate box. There is a little triangle or down arrow in the box below the Identity Plate check box and above that Override Color check box, click that choose the copyright you made. You can rotate the copyright (straight to the right of the Identity Plate check box is a circle, click it to rotate), scale it, change the opacity and override the color. You can also choose to render behind image, which I don't know what that does and render on every image which puts that Copyright in the middle of the image.

I hope this helps, I tend to ramble a little, ha ha.

Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

i have photoshop elements and have yet to figure out how to copyright or watermark my prints. can someone lead me into the right area?

Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 251 Location: Metro Detroit

A few links for you guys:

http://www.layersmagazine.com/make-your-own-custom-brush-2.html
Pretty nifty way to do signatures in photos w/ Photoshop. You can also use the text option and paste the copyright symbol from the character map.

http://www.faststone.org/
The photo resizer is freeware, and lets you add text and watermarks in batches. It's a good alternative to photoshop for copyright notices and signatures, plus it's free.

Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

photoshop can do that well for us, but it is a little diffcult to a new user