As we all know, crediting designers is incredibly important. Without these designers we wouldn't have the vast array of tutorials, magazines and books to delight and inspire us. At the same time, you want to protect your own hard work and the photograph you have taken. There is a simple solution to combine the two and that is to add all the information to your photograph. For those who don't know how, here's a quick tutorial on adding text using PicMonkey which is my favourite online image editor - it's free and it's easy!
Go to www.picmonkey.com and click on Edit at the top of the page to upload the photo from your computer...
On the left hand side of the screen you’ll see the editing options. Click on Tt...
It sometimes takes a little while for the text editor to start so don’t be alarmed if nothing happens for a few seconds. Click on the Add Text button that appears at the top...
Over on your photograph a text box will appear. Drag and drop the box to roughly where you want your text to appear. You don’t have to be exact as you can move the text around afterwards...
Click once inside the box and type your text.
To change the size of your text, highlight it and then choose the size from the drop-down selection in the pop-up box (or you can use the slider bar to the left of it)...
While you’re adding text, you can’t move the box. So when you've finished editing, click on your photo anywhere outside the box. You’ll notice circles appearing around the box which means that you can now move it...
When you’re happy with how your text looks and it’s placement, it’s time to save it! At the top of the page you’ll see a bar with options. Click on Save...
At this point you can change the file name and quality before clicking on the green bar that says Save To My Computer...
And that's it, you have now added text to your photograph! This is just a very basic tutorial - there are lots of other options like changing the font, colour and different effects etc. Have a play around with it!
