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How To Watermark Your Photos (For Free)

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It has become increasingly common to find images that have been “stolen” and reposted online without either paying for the licensing rights or attributing its creator. It seems highly unlikely that this is a problem that could ever truly go away. However, watermarking your images is one of the ways that you can actually use to combat the problem, and here’s how you can go about doing that. There are, of course, many ways to watermark your images, such as through image or photo editing programs. However, if you’d rather not spend money on a program just for watermarking purposes, the steps below will show you several free methods that might be worth checking out. How To Watermark Your Photos On Windows For those using Windows and would like a free tool that can watermark your images, FastStone’s Photo Resizer is worth a mention and can be  downloaded via the company’s website . To watermark your images using FastStone Photo Resizer: Launch the  FastStone Photo Resize...

How To Photograph Strangers While Traveling

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The art of photography presents us with many challenges once we’ve made it into a career. As a photographer you often find yourself exploring places and meeting people you probably had no idea you’d ever meet in this lifetime but through the career path, you chose you’ve crossed that bridge. One of my biggest fears as a photographer was that I had to learn how to effectively and properly interact with the people I would need to work with. I also had to learn how to introduce myself and share my story with others as to how I became the photographer I am today and what made me choose this career path. This was a huge challenge for me because I was always an introvert and was never a social person but It’s something I eventually had to overcome. Another challenge I faced was photographing or interacting with strangers when doing street or urban photography. Everyone is different and you’re never too sure how someone might react to you as the photographer or your camera but y...

Learn How To Create Realistic Skin Texture Effect In Photoshop

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Today we’re going to be fixing a problem that a lot of retouchers will come across. When you have to retouch skin a lot of times you will find that after all the  blemish removal . All the Gaussian blurring or whatever else has been done to the portrait… You will find that you may have lost a good bit of the texture of the flesh. Your image now looks overly airbrushed and plastic and not so real anymore. Well, all is not lost… Because you can create flesh texture no bother and add it back in. Wanna know how, let’s find out! Ok so grab your self a portrait image that looks a little over airbrushed. This shouldn’t be too hard, they’re literally all over the net. Use your own too if you want, in fact, I have a few of my old ones I can give you… I have plenty of them haha. If you don’t have any images that are overly airbrushed then easy. Just find an image like this one below I’m going to use. If you can’t find an image to work on. Fol...