[Please note: This post involves a Photoshop tutorial and I don't know if it will translate well to other programs. If you aren't a Photoshop user, it might make your eyes roll back in your head, and I wouldn't want to be responsible for that. Proceed at your own risk: you have been warned.]

I love taking pictures, and I recently decided to start watermarking some. A reader asked me in comments how I made my watermark, so I thought I would share it with you.

I am the queen of the Google search, so I looked for something like “watermark photos” and came up with this handy tutorial at freetimefoto.com. I worked through the tutorial, but then I saw and downloaded their watermark Photoshop action.

At first I didn’t like it because it made a big black box in the corner of my photo, always seeming to cover something important. Then I thought of the perfect fix: decrease the opacity of the rounded rectangle, or black layer, to 50%, thereby letting the photo show through the watermark. Instead of running the action each time, I saved the .PSD file (with the watermark customized with my URL) and stored it in the folder where I dump all of my blog photos after they’ve been doctored and resized for the web.

When I want to watermark a photo, I finish my photo editing and resizing and then open that .PSD file. I drag both layers (text and black background) into the corner of my photo. The cool thing is that you can drag it to either corner and it will work.

Examples, you say? Here you go!

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Do you have a little princess in your life? I would like to introduce you to Love-Me-Knots, a new online store for girls’ hairbows and hair accessories!

Love-Me-Knots is a joint venture between my friend, Melissa (she makes the bows) and I (I do the website). We are a couple of SAHMs who are really excited about getting the word out about our new business.

We currently feature over 140 products, including classic solid bows, polka dots, specialty, formal occasion, seasonal/holiday, hand-painted monogrammed bows, itty bitty baby bows, button bows, headbands, and pony streamers. Please stop by and give us the opportunity to meet your girls’ hair accessory needs!

Welcome to Love-Me-Knots!

When I first started blogging, I came across a YouTube video of a Japanese t-shirt folding method. I couldn’t understand a word of it, but after repeated viewings some of my kids and I mastered the technique and in our enthusiasm even taught it to others. When cold weather arrived we discovered that this method doesn’t work well for long sleeves (at least it didn’t for us) and we quit using it. My sixteen-year-old son and I just realized that we’d forgotten it, and thus began the technorati search which lead to the following helpful and delightful video, in which a cute kid explains the Japanese method and more–all in English!

Don’t you hate it when you put on a shirt and you’ve got hanger horns, those unsightly lumps on your shoulders where the hanger has stretched out the fabric? Here’s a quick fix: squirt them down with a wrinkle release product, then smooth out the lump. It works best if you’re actually wearing the shirt when you do this.For more Works-for-Me Wednesday tips, visit Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer.

I’ve never done this before, but I’m going to post something from the archives. I originally published this in October and it still gets lots of hits from Google searches, so I figure this is something people want to learn how to do. So without further ado…

Strikethrough Text

Do you really like love it when you see that strikethrough text effect, you just don’t know how to do it? Now you can! Just enclose the word or words you want to strike through between the following tags:

<strike>like</strike> gives you like
or
<s>like</s> will also give you like

Those brackets are on your keyboard under the letter “L.” Just don’t forget to include the / on the end tag; that lets your browser know to stop this effect, or else it will just keep striking through everything you write.

To my knowledge, this will not work when leaving comments (I haven’t tried it in the new Beta, so who knows?). Have fun, go forth, and strike away!

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Can you say, doesn’t follow directions well? Since I obviously missed the theme of today’s WFMW, I was going to shelve it until next week, but I don’t see the option to delete it from Shannon’s linky, so here it is…

First of all, I am really excited that Wednesday has rolled around and I actually remember my WFMW idea (from two weekends ago - I couldn’t remember what it was last Wednesday). The Revlon hot air styler and dryer pictured is one of the greatest inventions I have ever tried for fixing your hair. The girl who cuts my hair uses one, and told me I could pick one up at Target, which I did immediately, although mine is silver instead of this funky purple.

For years I used a hair dryer and a round brush to fix my hair. This is like a round brush with a built-in dryer and two barrel sizes. There is one thing I need to tell you though, or you will not like it: Do not think of this as a hair dryer, but instead as the ultimate round brush. Get your hair almost completely dry (or even completely dry) before you use it. If you use it on wet hair it will take forever.

It takes a little getting used to, but then it makes fixing your hair a snap!

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Cooking supper every night for nine people gets a little overwhelming at times. Since we always have a big lunch on Sunday and I’m exhausted by the end of the day, we have declared Sunday evenings to be “Popcorn and Cereal Night.” I don’t have to cook, and the kids think it’s the greatest thing ever!

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