Lightly Toasted

Perhaps a better place to hold this tutorial would be my Graphics blog. But that has been out of date mainly due to lack of sufficient free time. Although I have been in the process of rejuvinating it gradually.

For some of you who are more concerned than the rest about putting your images up on the web you might like to try your hand at putting in your signature, trademark or copyright on your images. There are MANY ways of doing this little excercise. There are many software that do it, they all have their own approach.

The most efficient way of doing this is using a Windows only(unfortunately) utility called Picture-Shark.

I have been use a software called Picture-Shark. Picture shark was created by Wolfgang Geiss and Christian Zink. You may download the program from here

You need to create a file containing your stamp text or image. This is the file which contain the text or image you want to see on the real image. After you start your picture shark follow these steps.

1. In the ‘input section’ screen, select your image. If its multiple images select them all and click the button ‘add sel’ or ‘add all’ whichever applicable.

2. In the ‘positions and settings’ tab point to your signature file. I use the following setting:
‘tick’ use transparence
feather:0
transparency tolerance:0
opacity:7.1%
x-offset:0
y-offset:0
position:mid-bottom

Please note that these settings will need to change if your image/picture is bright or a night shot. You wouldnt want your copyright stand out stronger than your picture itself.

3. In the 3rd tab ‘output selection’ nominate where you want to save the final masked image. NEVER overwrite the original image. Select your preferred output format, it would probably be ‘.jpg’ in most cases unless you are playing with a vector image. Hit ‘Start’ and you are done.

The downside: They only have a windows version! [:-x]