Watermarking your photos using Photoshop (brush method)

**Kym** · 08-04-2010, 2:16pm

Originally Posted by eagleye

Can I have some help on how to do an action for the watermark please.

Not sure that an action would help here. Its already a brush and you usually put watermarks on different parts of an image depending on the image.
http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/07...oshop-actions/

**ricktas** · 08-04-2010, 6:41pm

Originally Posted by eagleye

Can I have some help on how to do an action for the watermark please.

Using a watermark action, means the watermark will be the same size, colour and place on every photo, which is not the best method as placement probably needs to be determined for each individual photo. However there are watermark actions available and one is free at www.atncentral.com

**Jeanette** · 08-04-2010, 7:16pm

this is an awesome link Rick
thanks I successfully had a play and worked so much better than a long winded way i was trying to do it with an over lay for each photo .. DOH me

**bjholton** · 08-04-2010, 9:02pm

TERIFTASTIC

.... simple easy and so much fun to do ... thanks Rick for this tutorial.

**ricktas** · 08-04-2010, 9:04pm

Thanks for the compliments.

Just remember that you cannot watermark a photo that you enter into the competitions on Ausphotography as it identifies the owner, breaching the anonymous entry component of our competitions.

**linden** · 21-04-2010, 1:17am

Brilliant!
Thanks Rick

**mickyj** · 25-04-2010, 5:48pm

Wow, great info. I have been cutting and pasting from one image into another using the selection tool and a transparant backround. Way more complicated and the results are not as easy to produce

I think I will have to change my ways.

**kazdez** · 20-05-2010, 10:44am

Rick, I think you have ESP, cause every time that I think of something that I want to know how to do, it magically appears in a thread the next day. Thanks for the clear explanation.
Karen

**nobbs** · 23-06-2010, 8:59am

Ive been looking for something like this for a while.... thanks for the write up

I know im a bit of a lurker but dont worry ricktas, ill start posting some of my pictures soon enough, just reading threads at the moment, getting a gist of what this site is about

**ricktas** · 23-06-2010, 9:05am

Originally Posted by nobbs

Ive been looking for something like this for a while.... thanks for the write up

I know im a bit of a lurker but dont worry ricktas, ill start posting some of my pictures soon enough, just reading threads at the moment, getting a gist of what this site is about

hehehe, takes over 12 months to get the gist of the site??

**nobbs** · 25-06-2010, 10:36am

Originally Posted by ricktas

hehehe, takes over 12 months to get the gist of the site??

nope, i signed up, then i forgot i had signed up... ive only been really lurking for about 3 weeks now... when i went looking for a photography forum again i found this and realised i had previously signed up

**Cage** · 25-06-2010, 2:32pm

Good tutorial Rick.

Once I figured out that my new brush tool was stored in the tools menu on the right hand side I soon found my watermark. I was looking for it in the drop down menu for brushes I'd originally used on the left hand side.

Cheers

Kevin

**reggie** · 29-06-2010, 5:40pm

Great tut, very simple way to do it... will definately be doing it this way from now on...

**Lesley Bray** · 01-07-2010, 6:01pm

I just did this and it worked - elated !! Thanks a bunch
Lesley

**nwoody** · 01-07-2010, 9:48pm

saves doing it individually every freaking time, id say life saver but more an epic time saver !

**Cliff** · 09-08-2010, 12:12am

Paul, if you hold down ALT Key and type 0169 on the numeric keypad (not on the numeric keys at the top of the keyboard) you will produce the © symbol.

**Paul G** · 09-08-2010, 12:45am

Thanks Cliff. I thought it was something like that but I was trying Control & 169.

I've already created a brush with (c) so can brushes be edited? No big dramas anyway as it will give me some practice to create another!

**ricktas** · 09-08-2010, 7:32am

Originally Posted by Paul G

Thanks Cliff. I thought it was something like that but I was trying Control & 169.

I've already created a brush with (c) so can brushes be edited? No big dramas anyway as it will give me some practice to create another!

Not unless you save the document you create (with layers), so you can go back and edit it, then make a new selection, and define a new brush. Otherwise you have to make a new one.

**Cliff** · 09-08-2010, 1:01am

I don't know if they can be edited. I suspect not, but it would be easier anyway to just delete the old brush and define another.

**Bax** · 09-08-2010, 10:42am

Thanks Rick.

I've been doing it the hard way, I made a new document with a transparent background and created my watermark on that. Every time I want to add the watermark I have to insert that document, resize and rotate etc. And I'm always ending up with different sized watermarks.

I'll use a brush and size it correctly to suit my final output size.

Thank you.

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