Creating a Visible watermark in Photoshop CS5

Tuesday, August 31 2010

This tutorial assumes you have no previous knowledge of Photoshop and is geared more towards photographers trying to protect their assets.

Step 1) Finding the Drawing

 Find the drawing or vector that you would like to use and secure

 

 

Step 2) Adding the watermark

 On a new layer, add text or a logo with the watermark you would like. For instance you can just place “watermark across the image”

 

 

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Step 3) Duplicating the Watermark

 Duplicate it as many times as you can fit within the allotted canvas. Do this for the length of the canvas as well

 

 

Step 4) Rotating the Watermark

Rotate the layer, ctrl + t, so the watermark is now slanted. (This is done because often times it is easy to go over a watermark if it is only in 1 place and placed horizontally across the page)

 

 

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Step 6) Changing the opacity of the watermark

All you need to do is lower the opacity. I often times leave the opacity around 15%-20% because I still want people to be able to view the image.

 

Congratulations you have finished the tutorial. As always the source files will be available to you for your need and if you need to figure out what steps were used in creating this tutorial.

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Comments

Android mobile phones said on 09/07/2010 at 1:12 PM

Nice tutorial it's fantastic.

Nice post. Visible watermarks are the single most effective measure against image piracy today.


highheel said on 12/17/2010 at 3:26 AM


highheel said on 12/17/2010 at 3:26 AM