Herself's Webtools

Some images that you post online you wish to protect. A very simple way to watermark your image is to to create a transparent image the same size as your original, put your logo or website url in white, copy that to a new layer in the original image and change the transparency to what ever pleases you.

Original image

Create an image the same size

Use the ‘advanced options when you create the watermark and make the background transparent.

In your original image to go Dialogs->Layers

In the layers dialog create a new layer same as the first by clicking the copy button on the bottom ( 2 pictures )

Go to the watermark image and click edit->copy

Go to the original image and click edit->paste

You can use the arrow keys on your key board to move the watermark’s position

Slide the Opacity slider in the layers dialog until you like the way the watermark looks in your image.

All the wonderful things that have made it easier to find and process information on the net have also dulled the net.

Wiki is a great group encyclopedia. But like all committee work it lacks personality.  Also there is a re-occurring problem with people writing and editing their own  or their companies Wiki entries to their satisfaction.

Blogs are wonderful but if everyone out there is writing five to ten posts a week we’re all going to be covering a lot of the same information. RSS feeds let you process huge amounts of information. But it’s not the same as visiting. And aggregator sites are the lowest interest sites of all. They are just someone else’s idea of what your RSS feed should look like.

Social sites are peaking as well. As pointed out by Cory Doctrow everyone can find you on a social network. Those people you willingly left behind in your life have a creepy way of crawling back in to your life in web 2.0.

Websites have evolved in ways that make it easier for search engines and therefore people to find them. Search engines are evolving and as they get better it will become easier to be found by the search engines with out worrying about keywords or the format of your site.

Many sites need the ad revenues to cover costs. So like news sites they avoid topics likely to offend.

So until the next thing makes itself known I’m going to do my part. All the blogs have had sections added. Photos on some, scripts on others, but they are all branching out. It’s time. There will be more branching out over the next several months. More photos are going up on my sites than on my Flickr account now.

Blogging’s cool but we’re all ready for something new. I’m betting that will be the mobile web, which will one day be known as Web 3.0.