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How To Watermark Images On Your Blog – Blogging 101

March 24, 2014 By Paula 16 Comments

After last week's post where I share some photo safety tips for bloggers, we had a lot of questions about how to watermark images. I decided to share a tutorial about that with you today! I do the bulk of my photo editing in picmonkey, since it's a fun and free site for editing. Step One: Open pic monkey in your browser and click the "edit" button. From there it will give you the option to choose a photo from your computer, dropbox, Facebook ...

Blogger Safety Part 2 – That Time a Blogger’s Images Ended Up On A Porn Site

March 17, 2014 By Paula 24 Comments

I had a different post planned for today, but when I came across this story in my newsfeed I knew we needed to talk blogger safety instead. You can click through the link, but the short version of the story is that an innocent mommy-blogger like you and me had her normal pictures scraped from her site and then placed next to X-rated photos on a porn site along with personal information about her like her name, Facebook page and the city she ...

How many fonts should you use in ONE image? Blogging 101

March 5, 2014 By Becky Mansfield Leave a Comment

Did you know that it matters how many fonts you use in an image? Your eyes can only process so much with it become a distraction. You want your images to be direct, clear, big enough to be seen clearly, share-worthy, attention-grabbing… (that just about covers it, right? haha!) So, how many fonts should you use? You want to use TWO per image. (Three at the MOST). Use two that work together (you can find out which ones work together by ...

why you should not put an image before words in a blog post

February 19, 2014 By Becky Mansfield 59 Comments

I wanted to share a little blogging tip that I learned almost a year ago and it deals with the reason that I don't put an image before words in a blog post. (I just did another trick right there that I will explain today, too- #2 below). I always add a little intro first and then the image (find out why you don't put an image before words in a blog post below…) 1- The reason that you don't but your image before words is because when the ...