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Now there are many different ways to make a watermark and there are two that are used more prevalently then any other and I'll show you those two right now. First thing we do is we go down to our layers palette and we see that I've already made a copy of the background layer and we go over to our text tool, we choose it and we have our text tool ready to go. We come up, make sure we have like ok 24 point on a rather large block type, typeface and we click on the image and we click our copyright notice. Now copyright and the way you make the little copyright symbol is you hold down the alt key, you go over to the number pad and you type 0169 and then let go and the copyright symbol will appear. You put the date and then the name. Now we come over to our layers palette and we find that we have the text layer already established as what we wanted to do is right click on it, blending options and then we want to go to Bevel and Emboss and under style up here you want to go to Pillow Emboss and make it kind of deep, you want to take this up to around 200 somewhere in that neighborhood, size, increase the size to maybe 20, 25 pixels, something like that and then we go back up to blending options and here under advanced blending your going to reduce fill opacity down to 0 and that's essentially all there is to it. Now you click on this, you can move this around anyplace you want it to be, you can put it up top, now I don't recommend that you leave it, in fact now that I look at this, this is a little bit obtrusive, so we go back, right click on it, blending options and under Bevel and Emboss, let's bring down the opacity, to something that's not quite so garish and that looks about right. Now what we've done is we've created a visible copyright notice, yet the lettering, the text is allowing the color to shine through and as it move it around we can see that indeed it is translucent, yet you can still read it. So that's one way and it shows up also on black parts of the image. So that's one way of doing a copyright notice, let me show you the other way to do it and this is actually the way a lot of people do it, we'll simply get our text tool and we get another like this kind of font would probably work well and we type on the image, we go a bit smaller say down to 10 and we type. Alt, 0169, now that looks real small so let's increase the size on that up to about 12 and that still looks small. Let's go to 18, that's a little better and then we right click, blending options and we simply adjust the advanced blending. You want fill opacity, advanced blending and you just bring it down. You want it to be there but you don't want it to be a distraction to the image, you got to kind of walk that line and a lot of people put their watermarks and copyright notices like right here on the bottom border, I'm not a big fan of that, I think it has to be kind of up into the image, because what I am finding, now you may not be experiencing this, but what I am finding is that people are stealing images on the Internet left and right. I have found people, big companies as a matter of fact stealing my images of Yosemite and putting them in their publications without getting permission from me. So if you, be sure you put some kind of copyright watermark on your image you might keep that abuse to a minimum.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers
Author: Phil Hawkins
SKU: 33889
ISBN: 1-934743-75-5
Release Date: 2008-07-23
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 127 lessons
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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