Humduck

What is the favorite technique used to apply a signature to a photo?
Thanks so much!

rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

I use Photoshop brushes:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=photoshop+signature+brush

dwermske

In Capture One 12, I use the basic Process recipe (Watermark). In On1 Photo Raw 2019, I use the Export > Watermark feature. Some will allow you to past a pre-created logo or signature file into your photo. You might even try pasting a text block into your image. There are so many ways to do this; it really depends on your specific photo editing program and what options are available within it.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Signing in anything other than a hand-written signature using a gel pen loaded with archival ink will diminish the value of the print. I keep light, dark and neutral gel pens for that purpose. I use Sakura pens.

https://sakuraofamerica.com/component/product/products/403

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Export out of Lightroom with a watermark included.

russelray Loc: La Mesa CA

I created an Action in Photoshop that reduces the size to low-resolution, adds a frame around my pictures, and then puts my logo in the bottom center of the frame.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Depends on the purpose.
For the internet, I add one via my photo editor using a nice font. NOT to the original, but a reduced size posting copy.

For sale, gifts, donations, etc., I mat them and sign the mat personally (or sign the border on a print only).

davyboy Loc: Anoka Mn.

I would like to know what Picasso and all the other artists used. Seems all painters and artists put there signature on their creations

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Picasso would have used oil paint, as that was the medium he created the artwork in. Watercolor artists generally use a pencil. My late husband, a well-known artist in what he did, used first oil paint when he painted with that and then acrylic paint when he painted with that. Someone saying that putting your signature on the photograph via computer "will diminish its value" is without merit. They would not know that until many years into the future. When I enter and get a print into a show in Sacramento they do require that I sign it with my hand using whatever medium I choose. Normally, I use a computer-generated signature and, darn, they still sell and no one has told me they are "diminished" because of my computer signature. I hate my handwriting; if I had good handwriting I might hand-sign them all but that is not the case. There's nothing that says you can't hand sign on the back of the print and then use a computer-generated signature for the front; I've done that, too. There are no rules for signing your prints, only people with opinions who voice what they believe.

OlinBost Loc: Marietta, Ga.

If I want a legible signature I use my left hand to do. Using my right hand I go quicker and in most cases is barely legible. Snicker.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

I sign in the white margin below my print with a pen with archival ink. When I make the print, the title and copyright info are also printed in that margin where it will be hidden by matting. Matted and framed pieces also get signed on the mat in the traditional spot just below the right corner of the image.

For what it’s worth, when I was first starting out I had some pieces accepted into a gallery. One early print I brought had my computer generated signature in the bottom corner. The gallery owner said that I should not do that on future pieces. “We sell art here, not posters”. A bit harsh maybe, but an attitude I found echoed in most other galleries and better shows. If you sign your work (which better places actually expect) sign by hand.

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

I also use this method, but I do NOT sign everything.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

or I have a brush to use in PS

Bill P

Pencil shouldn't be a problem.

I have always printed with a shite border on which I sign at the bottom, the standard in painting for many years. Now, in the fine art realm, signing on the reverse is becoming more common, so if you like that might be an option.Generally I use pencil on matte paper and gel ink on gloss.

dwermske

Don't think I would want on of your pictures with a "SHITE" border. Will stick with standard borders, thank you.