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Watermark or not to Watermark your photos

brady oshiro — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:10:44 +0000

Ok , you want to watermark you photos, first you have to ask why you want to do it and the pro’s and con’s of watermarking an image. check out the list below. Personally i don’t care for watermarking, people will use an image and don’t even know that it is wrong, just do a google search for images and it so easy to find the one your looking for. i have better things to do, than to play cyber police, and try to prevent my images from being stolen or used against my will. Most of the images on the web are low resolutions anyway, so you can’t do anything with it except put it back on the web.

If i have to use any type of water marking i will make a frame around the image so it doesn’t distract or cover the image. look to example below.

Pros:

it’s copyright for your image.
you get credit for you photo.
Marketing your brand.

Cons:

It takes times.
Easily can be removed by photoshop
Distraction to the image.

after going through all the options of watermarking, and you still want to do it, here are some software to watermark your images.

Photoshop
Lightroom
Aperture
iWatermark

Adobe Photoshop CS5 [Mac]

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Aperture 3

iWatermark

CS4 Photoshop – Polaroid Action

brady oshiro — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:18:27 +0000

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[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

We were looking online and found a post on another photo blog about a photoshop action to make this polaroid montage, but when we went to download the file, it was no longer available. We decided to make our own action and share it with you. if you haven’t used actions with photoshop, it is an automated task so that you don’t have to do it manually. hope you enjoy this photoshop action, enjoy and have fun with it.

Sacrifice your next cup of coffee and donate $3.99 to support this website. Aloha!
click here to download polaroid photoshop action.

How to use this Action.

download files click here

you should have the a folder (bradyoshiro.com- polaroid action) with the following files:
1. bradyoshiro.com – polariod action.com – Polaroid Montage
2. poaroid.frame.psd
3. polaroid.temp.psd
Move all the files to your desktop for easy access.

Open Photoshop and double click on the actions file “bradyoshiro.com – polariod action.com – Polaroid Montage” to load it or manually add the action to your actions window in photoshop.

Once installed select and play the action and follow the directions.

Good luck and enjoy!

aloha thedigidarkroom.com

Photoshop User NAPP

brady oshiro — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:25:16 +0000

OK for all you people that are wondering how we edit and get the images that we do. follow this link photoshopuser.com it’s no secret, you can learn all the tricks and tips at a click of your mouse. if we didn’t share before, we use Adobe lightroom and Photoshop CS4 to give all of our images the finishing touches that make our work special and unique.

if you want to learn how to edit like the pros check out Scott Kelby and the gang at Photoshopuser.com

aloha and have a good weekend.