can anyone suggest an easy program for watermarking my photos? id like to add water marks on them but am unsure what to use. any help would be welcome. thank you

Do you have Photoshop? If so, check out this thread:

http://forums.photographyreview.com/showthread.php?t=28814

I have writen a very easy tutorial for placing a watermark on a photo. You can replace the copywrite symbol with whatever you want to use as a watermark.

In addition to Photoshop check out Photo Watermark Professional; quick, easy and the feature that I like the most is the batch processing.

In addition to Photoshop check out Photo Watermark Professional; quick, easy and the feature that I like the most is the batch processing.
I also use Photo Watermark Professional an can say it's very easy to use.