Before uploading your pictures and sharing it to the web, it is best practice to put watermark on your pictures to symbolize your ownership to these photos. If you are using Picasa Web Albums as image hosting then you may been using Picasa software to upload, organize and edit your pictures. One useful features of Picasa 3 (latest version) is the capability to add watermarks to your photos. You can do this in two ways: automatically during export and manually.

To add watermarks automatically during export, follow these steps.
1. From the menu, click File > Export to Picture Folder
2. Browse the folder where you want the pictures to be exported.
3. You can also change some options like image size and image quality.
4. Tick the "Add a watermark" check box.
5. Now on the text box below, put the watermark text you want to appear on these pictures.



Using this method, Picasa 3 by default put the watermark at the lower-right corner of the photo. Another limitation is that you cannot change the font face and size of the watermark.

The second method is done manually but it is more personalize. Here are the steps:
1. Open one picture you want to put a watermark.
2. From the Basic Fixes tab on the left side pane, click the Text object.
3. Then click where you want to display the text. You can also drag it to any location inside the picture.
4. Change the font, size and format of the text the way you want it.
5. Now click the apply button to save changes.



6. Now to apply the same watermark on the other pictures. Open the picture that has watermark already.
7. From the menu, click Edit > Copy Text
8. Go back to Library then select all the pictures you want to watermark.
9. Then from the menu, click Edit > Paste Text. The selected pictures now should all have watermarks.

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