Watermarks

Watermaking an image helps to protect that photo from being copied or printed without your permission. 

It's pretty simple to do.

First you need to create a brush or a shape that will serve as the watermark.  You can use your logo, your name, your initials, the copyright symbol (which can be typed by holding alt and the numbers 0169 on the keypad--©).

To create a brush I created a blank document, I believe this was 500 x 500 pixels, 300 dpi.  Then I chose an ornamental font and typed my initials with black as the foreground color on a white background.


Then choose Define Brush from the Edit menu, and now it will show up in your brushes palette.  You can save a set of watermark brushes with the preset manager.




Open the photo you will be watermarking and create a new layer (shift +ctl +n).  Choose the brush that you'll be using as the watermark and choose white as the foreground color.  Place the watermark wherever you want on the photo.

To give it some depth go to the layer styles button on the effects palette and choose bevels.  This will raise the brush stroke.  Try out some bevels, I chose "simple inner" for this one.


 Set the watermark layer's blend mode to soft light and adjust the opacity if it's too strong.  You don't want it to overpower the photo.


That's it!