A client was asking me about how to add watermarks to her blog photos as a way of deterring photo theft. I did my best to explain it, but felt that text just wasn’t the way to describe the process.
So I made a video tutorial.
At four in the morning.
You can thank me later.*
Now, go protect those photos!

ETA: Here are the links for GIMP and for Windows Live Writer.


*Thank me, tell me how crazy I am for staying up that late…whatever.

When Grandma demands pictures of the grandchild who am I to leave her unsatisfied? Here's to you, Mom!

Hey, she loved it!

It was recently brought to my attention that I wasn't posting often enough. It's true. It's not that I haven't been interested in, or working on Domestic Dork. It's just that the things I'm working on aren't really ready to be unveiled yet. I've got a list of my top favorite movies I've been trying to complete...but I'm having a really hard time narrowing down my top 10. I've been wanting to do more tutorials but most of the things I know how to do I've gotten from other sources...so it'd be pretty lame to pass them off as my own personal know-how. I'm incubating some ideas for some big, lengthy posts but I'm not ready to write them just yet.

Probably the most exciting thing I'm working on is a total overhaul of my blog design. I had wanted to get a unique, personalized design for quite some time. I figured I'd have to save my pennies for months and hire a designer because I didn't have an understanding of CSS and I wasn't familiar enough with illustrating software to do it myself. Well...that just wouldn't do. I have some basic knowledge of design principles. I'm a talented artist (or so I'm told). And I had some very specific ideas and sketches of what I wanted that I didn't think I could trust another person to pull off. So I decided to teach myself what I needed to know. Armed with my background in art, open source versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, and my trusty sidekick Mr. Google I've been able to put together some pretty sweet stuff. It's not quite finished yet, but soon.

Actually I've had a lot of fun (when I'm not banging my head against a wall because I can't figure out why my code isn't working). So much so that I've been thinking of making a hobby-job of it, digital design that is. I know I could whip up some killer graphics, banners, etc. for people and I could totally do it for less than 99% of digital designers out there. With some more practice and homestudy I could probably even do blog design for people. It's not exactly my number one dream job (which would be getting paid to read books all day), nor is it my number two dream job (which would be making a living wage blogging - so far I've only made $6.49). But it might be in my top 10, maybe even top 5 dream jobs. Once I unveil my new site design I'll give it more thought.

So, be patient with me. I know the blog is slow lately. But it'll pick up again in time. And I think when you see the new look you'll agree it was worth waiting for.

PS: For those of you on Facebook I highly reccomend the pirate version. Scroll to the bottom of any page on Facebook. Click on "English (US)" and switch to "English (Pirate)." It's very amusing.