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Monkeymicra
5th of October 2006 (Thu), 05:26
im a bit stuck, i want to put my name on all my photos but i cant decide what to write and in what style.

my real name is Craig Monk but i preffer C R Monk (R for Ryan) or CRM but my Dad has the exact same initials (and so does 5 generations of my family on the males side, its a tradition in our family cos we are all born on the same day, freaky or what? but only myself and my Dad are the only 2 alive) and he's heavily in to photography and i would like to make sure our photos cant get mixed up.

my nick name is Monkey and ive been called that ever since i can remember, but i feel putting that on photo is not "professional" or "Personal" enough (im just starting out as an amature and no way thing im a pro but you get the idea) plus there are other people that call them selves Monkey and could say its their photo. (im very paronoid about things) 99% of my friends call me Monkey its only my work collegues and family that dont.

in not very artistic when it comes to designing these things for my self, do all you do is use a font in PS, and how do you get it in the same place on loads of photos all at once, is there a Macro function in PS that can do this on multiple photos?

im rubbish at designing things that arnt engineering based, i have little or not artistic ability.

do you cange the font depending on the style of shote so the whole picture looks good? or do you keep the same font regardless?

Can someone create me one please?, i dont know what i want and im open ot ideas and help, or show me/point me in the right direction to making my own,

and from looking around i see that most people just put the C in a circle (copyright logo) their name and year the photo was taken, is that it?

Livinthalife
5th of October 2006 (Thu), 05:42
It seems like you are thinking way too much abou tit lol

I just slap my name on there unitl I think of a good "business" like name. I also do change the fonts according to the photograph. No year or any of that.

But aquick rundown on the putting it on your pic part.
-open pic in PS
-Type your name (or whatever you decide on)
-filter->emboss
-opacity to 40 or so %

That's what I do, hope it's useful!
You can also make this into a PS action so you don't have to do it everytime.
Good luck!

BoeingBonkers
5th of October 2006 (Thu), 05:51
Or even better make it into a brush. Although I do the same as andy and have made it into an action.

Monkeymicra
5th of October 2006 (Thu), 05:58
i should have said i dont know PS very well, i can crop and thats about it at the mo, but im learning :)

Monkeymicra
5th of October 2006 (Thu), 06:48
It seems like you are thinking way too much abou tit lol

yes i do, im a bit of a perfectionist and want everything to be right fromthe start, i hate having ot change something later on

Livinthalife
5th of October 2006 (Thu), 08:30
Well what I wrote is pretty basic, so if you can follow that word for word, than your set! It's not as difficult as you may think. Give it a shot :)

Give me a simple picture of yours, and I will toss up a couple different variations of your copyright to give you some ideas. How does that sound?