watermarks,copyrights

two questions-
how do you place a watermark on your photos, I do not have the pro subscriptions at smugmug and my level does not include watermarks

how do you indicate that your photo is copyrighted, do you just simply place a copyright mark?

thanks

1 - upgrade to the watermark level or place it on as a layer in photoshop or whatever you use.

2 - you automatically own the copyright but should register it.

3 - use the search button at top.

You can just easily create one yourself with most photo editing programs.

Photoshop, Picasa (Free)(http://picasa.google.c​om/), etc...

Thanks to all I also found Lightroom as watermark function..

**I am not a smugmug user so don't fully understand their system**

I understand that people can buy prints using smugmug. Be careful putting watermarks on your files if you don't want them to come out on the print.

I think smugmug puts the watermark on the web photo, but prints without it

Borna C wrote in post #9443001
I think smugmug puts the watermark on the web photo, but prints without it

Yes, correct. They only watermark in software only. They print w/o a watermark.

Yeah, that's what I'd thought, but if he watermarks the JPG manually (eg. lightroom) and then uploads that to smugmug surely it'd print with the watermark?

dreamcatcher23 wrote in post #9446120
Yeah, that's what I'd thought, but if he watermarks the JPG manually (eg. lightroom) and then uploads that to smugmug surely it'd print with the watermark?

Yes it would, good point