Crop the Text and Define it as a PatternĪs before, crop the text. Want to improve your productivity? Check out this course on customizing Photoshop to fit your workflow.Ģ. You can also change the text color to white if you want. This isn’t a necessity, but it makes our watermark look nice. This is what your text should look like now: You can also enter -45.00 under ‘angle’ in the transform toolbox at the top: Hit CTRL + T and drag the corners of the text until it’s tilted by about 45 degrees. But instead of cropping your text, do the following: The process is easy enough, as we’ll see below: Creating a Watermark Pattern in Photoshopįollow steps #1 and #2 given above. Want to create more complicated Photoshop image effects? Check out this tutorial to create a vampire in Photoshop!īut what if you want one of those ‘patterned watermarks’ you see floating around on the internet.
The effect is far more pleasing now.Ĭongratulations, you’ve successfully created a watermark! Lowering the opacity to around 25% in the brush attributes menu bar will give us that nice watermark effect. That’s because we haven’t changed the brush opacity. It’s best to use either black or white, though I personally prefer white.Īll you have to do now is click the mouse once where you want the watermark to be, like this:īut wait…that doesn’t look very nice, does it? You’ll now see your brush cursor change to your watermark image.īefore you can create the watermark, you’ll have to change the brush color. Select the ‘Brush’ tool ( ) and from the brush presets menu, scroll down and select the preset you just created. Now open the image that needs to be watermarked. Your image is now a brush that you can use with the brush tool to ‘paint’ your watermark. In the dialog box that pops up, give a unique name to your watermark brush and hit ok. Now we need to turn this image into a brush. To do this, first crop the image to the size of your text: One of these is to turn your text into a brush. There are many different ways of creating a watermark. Make it as large as you want your final watermark to be. Use the Type tool to create your watermark text. Make sure that you select ‘Transparent’ in ‘Background Contents’. I personally prefer something at least 600 x 600 pixels in size. Open Photoshop and create a new document. For more in-depth tips and tricks on using Photoshop, take this Photoshop video quickstart guide. Below, we will take a look at two popular methods, followed by the proper way to add watermarks to a batch of images. There are multiple ways of creating watermarks in Photoshop. Fortunately, creating a watermark itself is pretty easy, as we will learn in this tutorial below. Watermarked images look decidedly ugly, but in this age of plagiarism, is also a rock solid way to prevent unauthorized use. To watermark or not to watermark: many a photographer has grappled with this question.
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