Funny that you know what you will not use but do not know what you will.

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Monty.

When you say 'watermarked' exactly what do you want? I ask as it is possible in Photoshop to make a brush which you can then add to all your images. The brush can be your signature and can be as large or small as you wish. Or as I have done here just make a 'sign' of your name. I have overdone this just to show you. It takes just a minute or two to make the brush.

That's a Beaut Mike....The Picture too....

I just discovered that my Photoscape software does watermarking...and I can have whatever I want...wherever on the photo I want too..the freebie I posted above only lets me put it in a half dozen particular places.....so will be using the Photoscape from now on.....check your own software...it maybe does it too.

I think that quite a lot of software - certainly you can in Photoshop - allow you to add details to the exif - like the Author etc. I believe that this can then be hidden so that it would not be possible for someone to alter it. But Mike would probably know more about this than I do.

Have a look at FastStone, it can do it very easy and as a batch operation as well, which is nice.

Freeware, good photo viewer and a bit more than basic photo editing tool.

There are thousands of ways of putting text to pictures and blending as required.

I would make a transparent png files then import and place where needed as textural png can be re-sized without too much bother.

By adding a complex frame and placing the logo / trade mark / copyright symbol in an awkward place any cropping of the image would look odd.

Without a frame and placed badly the copyright /name etc could easily be cropped out.

You can make them as subtle or not to taste by using different blend methods.

You can even make it an action to be done in a batch edit depending on the program.

You can get the © by having the num-lock button on and pressing the left alt key while typing 0169 then releasing the key . You can then re-size that for your copyright mark if you feel it needs that too.

There is a whole list of symbols and how to get them here.

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html

Hi Angie.

You will have seven days to sort out the privacy settings on a face-book account but some of it may still turn up on other peoples time lines.

It was some of those privacy settings that gave me the problems on flickr .

The main one was you have to opt out of letting other people publishing your material without your consent which you have to opt out of manually  as they are opted in by default .  

Yes re Facebook I understand this timeline buisness isnt very popular. However since I've never been a member before, those issues wont affect me. It just seems more and more buisnesses large and ( in my case very) small lol! are using Facebook to promote thier products. Its just like having a website in the late 90's some thought it was a waste of time, now if you havent you wont survive.

Yes Chas you are right. I really meant brand leaders wont survive without offering an online presence of some kind. It is totally different trying to sell photographic  work via the web and I would never consider doing so exclusively. However it ( Facebook) is a very useful tool to promote your business in terms of where you will be exhibiting/selling, the type of work you produce, the new work you have to show off etc etc. This will be my third year of selling prints, last year sales increased 300% on the first year, so with a Facebook presence on top of everything else who knows what the year holds. For example a colleague of mine is organising a charity event in April (Craft Fair), for a raffle I have donated a framed print which will be a main prize, another donation has come from Pembrokeshies top tourist attraction ( free family tickets) there is already a post on that Facebook page concerning the event, so without any effort from me potentially loads of people can already get a link to my page. I think the term is "going viral" lol! Anyway its all just a bit of fun. Having been in "sales" most of my life there is always something new to learn.