How to make a watermark in photoshop

In the modern world, the watermark plays the role of a signature, personal autograph, which allows you to keep the copyright to the picture. In addition to directly the signatures of the photo content owner, it can be a unique phrase, link and anything. It is called it due to translucency.

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In what cases do you need a watermark?

• The percentage of violation of the rights of authors in the field of photocontent is significantly higher than in the text area. Unique photos laid on a personal site or in social networks can lead and use as their own. To protect yourself from theft, photographers use watermarks - photos with them less often copy or steal.
• A unique signature will also make a wide fame. In particular, it concerns cases where a unique combination or reference to the personal site of the author is used as a watermark. Thieves who copied such a picture create it to the owner free PR. In addition, such photographs will be difficult to give up for their own.
• From the PR should be promotion. If the photos are popular and become increasingly faster in the network, then the creator of the watermark on them will be known anyway.
• If the watermark serves as an advertisement of the brand or the original author of the photocontent, then it will beat off the desire to use them in their projects. If they still risk and make them, they will have a bear service, propiaring the initial content owner.

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How to make watermarks?

Before getting to work, not only the background image is determined, but what exactly will serve as a watermark. It may be a symbol, logo, link and many other things including smiles and pictures.

1. After that, open the image in Photoshop and create a new layer in which you open the inscription or a picture that we used for a watermark. Following this change in the second layer size of this sign. To do this, use the "Free Transformation" option.
2. When you click on it around the sign there is a limiter frame. Shifting it for corners or side, the sign makes more or less. It is better to reduce it, otherwise he will rush into the eyes, causing irritation from observers.
   After completing the resizing, click on ENTER, although the tick on the panel with the layer parameters performs the same function. After that, the icon is placed in the angle - the upper left or lower right. This is done with the help of "movement".
3. After moving to the angle, the sign can be aesthetically placed, shifting it to the right and left with the keyboard arrows. The sign will move in the selected direction on 1 pixel. If the movement needs to be accelerated, then shift clamp - then the movement will occur on 10 pixels at a time.
4. After finding the optimal place for the logo, until the completion of the work will remain quite a bit. The last step before completion is the selection of transparency. Over the layer with a logo, the slider is moving on the "opacity" scale until the image does not accept the optimal view. That's all, the work is completed.

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Process optimization

If it is planned to continue to use this watermark, then Photoshop at the selection stage of transparency for the sign is not closed. The fact is that the process of placing a watermark can be automated in such a way that it takes only a pair of mouse touches to obtain the desired result.

1. Automation of the watermark placement process is called "action". To create an action with this logo and this photo will need to choose a place where a watermark will lie. It can not be changed or transferred in the future if you plan to use this action several times.
2. Then open the palette with operations. To do this, click on the "Window" button, it is chosen subparagraph "Operations". In the open dialog box, there will be a folder with the name "Default Operations". It does not touch, instead below, on the control panel, press the "New Set" button and enter the title of watermark.
3. After creating this new operation in the palette, the "Record" button will be active. Press on it and open the picture - Photoshop begins to memorize the actions of the user and in the list on the palette they are recorded by separate items.
4. Then the login is copied, transferred to the picture. After that, it is recommended to stop - you can not simply transfer the sign as with its single use. Photoshop will not be able to further determine the angle of photographs and, when using the material of another scale, the logo will be almost in the middle. Therefore, Photoshop "teach" to determine the edge of the working field.
5. Choose a layer with a picture and allocate it entirely, then switch to a layer with a sign. With the help of "movement" it is placed using the "Alignment to the lower edge" tool option and choosing the placement in the right or left edge of the picture. After that, the framework of the selected area is disconnected and transferred to the retreats.
6. Then, about the help of "moving" a watermark is shifted by 1 or 10 pixels in the desired side and choose its desired opacity. Then the tab with the sign created in 4 impacts is closed. Before that, it is necessary to choose it by activating it. The recording of actions is completed by pressing the "Stop" on the palette and check the performance of the action again.

The process of placing a watermark is not as complicated as it seems at first glance. It is worth spending a little time to select photos with an action record and all further placement of watermarks will become 5 seconds.