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How to Watermark Your Photos

by Michael Carr
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Watermarking Photos for Your Protection

If you are sharing photos, especially if you will be posting them online or emailing them, you never know what will happen to them. Someone could take the photos for their own use, and you might never even know. Here is a simple step-by-step tutorial on protecting images by watermarking your photos.

While there are many ways to protect images, watermarking is probably the most effective. Several other methods, such as right-click disabling and adding a transparent gif image file on top, either have work-arounds the experienced photo-stealer knows or they are time-consuming.

Watermarking is more effective, and it's simple to use. In fact, there are programs that allow you to watermark a batch of several pictures at once. In fact, you may already have software that will create watermarks on your images right now.

Click through each step of this tutorial to discover how to protect your images from misuse and theft with watermarking. The next step is Finding Watermarking Software

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