Presented by Rick Matteson and Brian Revere — How do you protect your designs from being stolen or used without payment nor permission? Say you have a web site advertising your paintings and you have a image of it. Just saying all rights reserved and copyright 2010 won't stop some people. A simple way to bolster protect against someone else using your work as their own is a simple visible or not so simple invisible watermark. Visible watermarks can be small, mainly textual off in a corner or larger and centered in the image. They could be logos. They could be opaque or mostly transparent relying on beveled edges or drop shadows. Plum Amazing makes the program iWatermark for Macs (Mac OS X 10.4 or newer) and the iPhone and those other guys (Win XP+) This $20 program, now at version 3.2 has been around since early 2004 back when it was known as Script Software. (The same company makes iKey and iClock Pro among others.) It's very simple to use, just drag into the window, a source and a destination folder, type some text and choose a background and effect to apply as the watermark to each image in the source folder. You can save waternark settings for reuse. It can also create thumbnails as it goes, which is most useful if you are creating a batch of images for a website. The iOS version can't do batches, but likewise can apply either a text watermark or a graphic watermark. For a iPhone, app, it's quite full featured. It's only 99 cents. This is going to be a vital meeting for Mac users of all types, so don’t miss it! |
|
No, that’s not an error or new SIG. There’s been a name change. The The SIG meeting is broken into two sessions. The first is from 7:00 to 7:30PM, during which we will have our own basic level question and answer session. We’ll break for the featured presentation and raffle and come back for the main portion of our SIG meeting from 8:30 to 10 o’clock. The August MacBasics SIG meeting will not be held, but will return in September. Of course before our MacBasics main demonstration we'll have our own novice Q&A session across the hall, while Bradley's dealing with the more complicated problems in the main room. |
The DTP/Photoshop SIG, is lead by Brian Revere. Unfortunately Brian Revere is still recovering from a triple heart bypass this month. This month, like the MacBasics, is on hold until September.