Optimizing images for the web and adding a custom watermark

One of several mini side jobs that I do is web design and consulting.I'm the webmaster for my church and I've been consulting for a local business that is in the process of updating their website.

While I love designing websites for organizations, it's even better when I get to teach a user how to create and maintain the site themself. To that end, I just created two tutorial videos for my clients that I thought others might find helpful.  In both I use the free photo editing website Pixlr. I especially like their Editor, which has a nice suite of image editing tools that will get most jobs done for small business owners like myself.

These videos are intended for people with little to no photo editing experience. I filmed them in a Chrome browser on my Windows PC. If you are using a Mac, whenever I refer to right-clicking on a menu you should hold CTRL and click.

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