I use Windows Live Writer to upload most of my photos for blog posts because it provides an easy and convenient way to add a watermark to all my photos. Not only is it easy, you can also set the watermark to default so you don’t actually have to do it for each individual photo. Live Writer will just remember your preference and do it for you.
Here’s how I do it (I’m assuming you’ve already downloaded Live Writer and are slightly familiar with it, if not don’t worry it’s not hard and it’s free).
- When in Live Writer, insert a photo into your post, then select/click on it to bring up the “Picture” ribbon.
The Picture ribbon lets you do all sorts of nifty things to your pictures, but I’m just going to focus on three elements.
The three areas I’ve marked above let you resize the photo, bring up the watermark options and then set to default.
- Begin by setting the desired size for your photo.
- Then click on the watermark option. A prompt box will appear.
Fill out what you would like the watermark text to say, choose the font and font-size, and position. Once you are done, hit “okay”, and the watermark will be applied to your photo.
- Great, but if you don’t want to do that for every single photo, there is one last step. Make sure the picture you just watermarked is selected (click on it to select it), on the “Picture” ribbon of Live Writer find the “Set to default” option and click on it. Now every subsequent picture you load in this and any other post on Live Writer will load with the properties you’ve chosen. Tada!
You can always make changes to the size, alignment, and framing, but it is nice not to have to fill out the watermark info for every single picture.
Zulay says
Is that free to download?
unknownmami says
Yes, it’s free to download.
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Maggie says
Thank You! I’m going to have to check this out.
samijoe says
Thanks for the tutorial! This seems much easier than using Photobucket!
unknownmami says
I love it because once you are done you can just upload it to your blog and you can set Live Writer to have your template so you can see exactly what it will look like on your blog.
AutismWonderland says
So cool!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Mamamyya3 says
This is AWESOME!! I am so going tho attempt this!! Thank you 🙂
unknownmami says
Oh good, I’m glad it is useful. I almost didn’t post it.
Leovi Leovi says
Interesting proposal very useful
Mamatim says
I’ve been wanting to learn this, thanx dearie, U’re an angel! If I have questions, I’ll be back :))
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My Inner Chick says
I usually copy and paste.
I’m such a dork 😉
Thank You. x
deborahpucci says
Thank you. I am going to star this post and give it a try. I do not use Live Writer. I am not a big person on change. I have never changed to any new systems.
Jai says
You ate awesome. I needed a visual to get this done. Thanks!
Kevin Mote says
I love WLW too, but its days may be numbered. If you want to support it, please sign the “Save Windows Live Writer” petition created by software developer, Scott Lovegrove: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/dontkillwlw
Mindy says
I’ve been blogging with LIVE WRITER and have even blogged tutorials, but I didn’t know about this default setting! Thank you! Great tutorial.
momof3 says
do you have this for the updated livewriter, I miss my old version
Claudya Martinez says
I had it programmed and when I updated it stayed the same for me. You can still upload your pics, set the size you want, put in the watermark and size of watermark that you want and then hit set as default under the format tab.
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