Grown-Up Goodness: Blogging Better
Sometimes great things just fall in your lap.
Sometimes they come in lovely, unexpected emails. Like this.
Miss Paige over at Approaching Joy has been so good to me throughout this whole blogging journey, and the goodness just keeps coming. Yep, it's just who she is. And she's got a rocking new URL so go follow that happy link and check out girlfriend!
And, thanks for coming back..because Paige is helping me and all my blogger buds out with a super easy, way for us to blog better...and get the credit and traffic we deserve from all this online goodness.
Here's the beauty herself...and don't forget to watch that Vlog down there where you get to hear her, too!!
I had the opportunity to attend the Word Camp Fayetteville conference recently and highly recommend any kind of tech conference to anyone interested in blogging. The sense of community there was amazing. If you'd like, you could check out my "How to Rock a Conference" post.
Okay, enough shameless self plugs.
A big issue discussed by the community at the conference was that of watermarking. Though we all love Pinterest and the awesomeness that it brings to our computer screens, there is always the matter of making sure the original creator/ author / photographer gets the credit. If I were to see a snazzy pinnable from MJ on Pinterest (which I often do) I would want to be able to click on the picture and visit her site. Chances are I would then fall in love with MJ's writing style and fun personality and be a follower for life.
But what if that process didn't happen just like that. What if I saw MJ's image on Pinterest, clicked on it and saw it on another blogger's page? That blogger (who was really trying to do the right thing because she always heard to credit images where she found them) credited the image back to Pinterest, leaving me am back where I started and not having had a chance to fall in love with MJ. Bummer.
There are two things we can do to prevent such bummers:
- Always, always, always credit images back to their original source.
Saying something came from "Pinterest" just isn't good blogging business. - Watermarking.
If the image the was originally pinned from MJ's sight had a watermark I could easily see that, Google "Pars Caeli", and, of course, fall in love with MJ.
The question is: What's an easy way to watermark my images?
Check out my video and I will show you how! Together we can help the world realize that they need to fall in love with our content! (Also: Click "full screen" to see this video in the way it's supposed to be viewed.)
Isn't that easy?!?
Something that I didn't say in the video but is worth mentioning: The beauty of this is the ease for next time. Once you have your brush made & saved, go into the brush options and click "Save Brushes". By doing this, your watermark will come up every time you load Photoshop and from there all it takes is a click.
Last thing: Don't be like me and watermark every third image. By making this process easy I hope to personally get a more streamlined photo/image creation process with this always being my last step.
Try it out. Let me know if it works or if you have any problems. I'd love to help.
Thank you, Paige!!! I love the ease of a Photoshop brush with my logo. Look out for some crazy good watermarked images, my friends. I'm hoping to see yours, too!!
On this note of blogging better, I have been a very lucky girl this summer in meeting up with amazing blogger ladies like Amy and Melanie. I can't wait to tell you more about these visits in the upcoming weeks. Super affirming and inspirational!
XOXO, MJ