Author Archives: Ivan Ross

How to Improve Your Watermark Protection

All of us know that the best way to protect your digital photos on the Internet is by watermarking them, but sometimes to place the watermark on the photos is not enough to secure your photos. For example, look at … Continue reading

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Visual Watermark for Mac Update 1

Hello, I’m happy to announce the first update for Visual Watermark for Mac. It features 5 new features. Auto-scaled watermarks This feature allows watermarking landscape, portrait and cropped photos at once. If the watermark is too big to fit into … Continue reading

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Figuring Small Business/Self-employed Taxes

Copyright © 2008 kozumel As a self-employed artist, or photographer, you have to pay an ordinary income tax as everybody else does and additional “self-employment” tax which does not exist for people living on a wage. Self-employment tax Self-employment tax … Continue reading

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Personal Finances of a Self-Employed

Today, I wanted to speak about personal finances of a self-employed person – photographers, artists and freelancers in general. I started Visual Watermark as a part-time project while working with my ex-employer DevExpress Inc. It was fun and easy side-project … Continue reading

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Visual Watermark for Mac Updated

July 20 Apple released a brand new OS called Lion. It brings up 250+ new features, including redesigned interface. We have tested Visual Watermark for compatibility issues yesterday and unfortunately found one. Program toolbar is mangled – question signs are … Continue reading

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Resolving the Google+ Fine Print Dilemma

What is Google+ ? I guess that all of you have already heard about a new overwhelming project from Google – a social networking service code-named Google+. It was born only 1 month ago, but has already got more than … Continue reading

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How To Set an Output Folder on Mac

Visual Watermark for Mac needs you to do 3 things: select a list of photos you want to watermark, design a watermark and provide the program with an output folder. Output folder is a place on your hard disc that will contain … Continue reading

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How To Set a Avatar – Gravatar Tutorial

I noticed just a couple of people here in comments have avatar set for their accounts. It is OK, but if you wish to personalize your account here a little bit, here is a step-by-step guide.

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What is a Watermark

Watermark is a mark or lettering over the photo showing its owner: a photographer or a website. Here are a couple of watermark samples: Both photo watermarks contain photographer name and thus help to identify who made the picture.

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How to Watermark Photos in Aperture Library

Aperture is photo management software for Mac that allows you to store and refine high volumes of photos. All images are stored in a special folder called library. This means when importing photos from a camera memory card Aperture copies … Continue reading

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