Quite a while ago I wrote an article that outlined how to watermark your photos for free through a program that works with iPhoto. Well, earlier this year that free program stopped working. At least it stopped working for me. So I had to go on the hunt for a new way to watermark photos.
Whenever you are blogging you should watermark your photos for a few reasons:
1 – It’s a fun way to let people know where to find you. If they like the picture they may want to visit your site and a watermark will tell them where to go.
2 – It’s a fun way to make sure that people can’t swipe your photo and act like it’s theirs.
3 – I can’t think of any other reasons right now but I’m sure there are some…
Eva has a friend who is a blogger (and who paid off a ton of student loan debt by working on a cruise ship). Mel told us about PicMonkey when we asked her how she created such cute photos for her site brokeGIRLrich. I’m so glad she did!
PicMonkey is a free program that allows you to do all sorts of editing on your photos. Of course, anyone can use it, and it can be a lot of fun if you want to create your own collage or invitation for personal use.
Here are some examples of what I have done for TGC’s recently:
Fun at FinCon ’14
Photo’s from Eva’s article about capsule wardrobe’s for teens.
In Orlando at one of Eva’s speaking engagements.
As you can see I’m not doing anything fancy with it but I am learning more and more about how to use PicMonkey to create images for Pinterest and other social media. In fact, I just noticed that you can create comic book characters in PicMonkey!
Let’s not tell Eva about this…Drat…she just walked by and asked, “Why do I have Wonder Woman hair?”. I told her I was just having a little fun…
PicMonkey is easy to use and they come up with new things to try often. I used the free version for months before I went ahead and spent money on the paid version. It’s only $33 a year – so less than $3 a month. Since I use it fairly often I thought it was worth a few dollars a month. The upgraded version gives you a lot of extras (that you really don’t have to have) but I purchased it mainly for the fonts. I wanted to be able to use any font they had available.
I may try designing our Christmas card this year. If it turns out decent I will share it with you here. Have fun editing all your photos!
PicMonkey doesn’t know who I am and I am not being paid for this review (unfortunately). Regardless, it is my honest opinion.
I know of a few people who watermark their photos because it’s easier to share their guides (like infographics) on imgur and on other sites as images. Like you said, people see the watermark and they come back to your site for more. A good (watermarked) photo can be worth a thousand visitors.
i think watermarks always make a picture look good. I like using it myself on my pictures when I edit.
This is a wonderful read Charlotte! I loved how you made it easier. I’m not a techie person and I’ve yet to learn about the whole image editing idea. This is a great head start!
Thanks for stopping by Pria!
I have used picmonkey several times and gotten excellent experience on photo editing. Your writing gives me more idea about this tool. Thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you Shohel. 🙂
PicMonkey is a really amazing Photo editing tool..I used it many time and when i used it i give us special Photo and when read your article than i earn more idea about it so thanks for this share…
I love PicMonkey! So glad this was helpful!
Helpful post.Pretty good information.Thanks a lot
Glad it was a help. Thanks!
Picmonkey is really amazing, but I think you should update this post. Picmonkey is sadly not free anymore 🙁
Good point Shania. Thanks for letting me know!