Lesson 24 - How to Watermark Images in Photoshop (batch process)

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In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to add copyright watermark or logo to your images. I will also show you how to create an action in Photoshop to process multiple images.

Music: Kevin MacLeod. (Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0")

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hi guys this is exposure tutorials about
photography a lot of you requested for
me to do the lesson on how to put the
watermarks on your images in photoshop
so i decided to do the last pockets and
in this lesson I will show you three
ways of to put watermark on your image
first we will be putting watermark with
a single and then with greater action
well which will automatically put
watermark on the image and we also
we'll take a look at how to create
action to bash process a lot of images
at a time when the one so I'm gonna
start
ok
i will show you how to place you drop
your right
watermark on me single image and i
usually place the corporate watermarks
only are my logo only on the images
which will go for a web
I don't play them on the images which
will go to print and for where there is
no need to have a huge image
it's a good practice to resize the image
and lower heel resolution so even if
somebody decides to still image they
still can't printed because of the lower
resolution
so this image has been resized to 72
pixels per inch resolution which is
perfect resolution for web and on the
longer side it's 1000 pixels but this is
depends where your image will be placed
its might vary but sounded too is a
perfect resolution for web and i have a
video where I show you how to resize
your images for web and then you click
ok and we have resized image right here
let's place called me right watermark on
this image to place the copyright what
we go to this tool which called
horizontal type tool we grab it and then
we click anywhere in the image where we
wish
watermark through here and let's add the
corporate symbol first and on Mac it
will be option G on pc it's a little
more complicated
it will be cold what r 0 1 69
then we can add a here
not sure like this type and then you can
add your name or name of your company if
you don't like the fact you can change
it just highlight your watermark like
this was a miles and then you can go to
drives and just change it
to find and change your fund
all right this is just an example I'm
going to play too long with it
you can also change the size right here
and also the color
actually I prefer either white or black
water marks I don't think red is really
nice or green its way to distract you
don't want your watermark to be
distracting so I prefer white also don't
place your water marks right like in the
middle of the image because the
Goldwater markets protect him image and
also let people know who was who took
the image but you don't want you want to
mark to take away from the image in my
view image look bad because big large
watermark somewhere in the middle
can really make image look bad also
sometimes it's a good idea to place your
watermark on this place is like this
where you have playing background but i
think the longest look better like this
the copyright so I prefer to have it
right here also it depends what your
background is behind the watermark
sometimes you have a really light
background and if you have a white
watermark you want to stand out so if
you
you can either use black watermark or
you can also use white but you can add
the drop shadow to it and to have the
drop shadow to your watermark
here you have your layers this is the
layer was a picture but click on the
layer way
watermark is and then double-click
double-click of the new palette which is
later styles open and you go to the last
menu which is drop shadow and just click
on it and the reason drop shadow behind
watermark and you can control it with
slide right here
so facet II when you're satisfied click
OK
you see it's kind of makes your
watermark stand out a little bit better
you can also lower a positive your
watermark so its last distracting into
work positive make sure you layer is
selected and go right here
- pacity menu and just slide the white
slider down
this will look much better this will not
distract you can still see but this will
not distract the image and this is how
you add the watermark to single image
now i will show you how to create an
action which will let you to place the
same
watermark on our the images
first the wall you want to open the
actions panel and you go to window and
you make sure that actions are checked
and see action panel shows up i will add
it right here
so we have actually family ok so you can
see those layers and actions and as you
can see we already have default actions
and the borders actions but we can
create a new folder with all our
watermark actions because we might have
a few different watermarks example just
helped popularize watermark in one of
our cars our log wall or water marks the
place of horizontal images of article
images of different size of images so to
create a new folder was actions you
click on the folder right here folder
icon and then we call this other marks
click OK and use as you can see in your
folder create has been created and then
we'll create a new action was watermark
inside this folder to creating your
action
what click on this icon right here which
looks kind of like a piece of paper and
we'll call it
water mark one you can call it whatever
you want as long as you will recognize
it and then i click record and this
little a son with as we click record as
you can see record button is pressed it
will start recording all the steps we
will be doing afterwards and now i will
kind of repeat the steps I did
previously real quick
I will grab the type tool and then I
will tie my mom
copyright real quick okay
and then I maybe I like the time
maybe i'll add some drop shadow war and
then i will lower the class and whenever
you do all these steps
everything will be recorded into your
actions so whatever you just did is
recorded as you can see all those steps
right here and whenever you're done just
click on the square next to record
button this will stop the recording and
then whenever you want to place this
water marks a mark on the new image you
just open the new image and then you
highlight his action and you click play
science underneath and as soon as you
click the plate side underneath you have
the watermark to appear and the one good
about this
I like instead like after this I will
show you how to bash process whole bunch
of images and put the water hearts on a
lot of images of the folder then it will
be all automatic
but i like this Michael - because here
you have more control and start to put
the same
watermark into every single image here i
can adjust when one market you if I was
like here for example the background
it's darker so i can change my positive
little bit or let's assume I want to
place my watermark somewhere else but in
the next segment right after this I will
show you how to create an action to
batch process a lot of images so let's
get started with that
before you create an action for batch
processing you want to sort out two
images and it's a good idea to sort out
you images to resize images into
horizontal images into vertical because
the watermark might be a little
different size or it might be a
different placement watermark depending
if the images of horizontal or vertical
so as you can see in this folder and
have all the horizontal images and then
this folder how all vertical and you
want to create a two separate actions
one horizontal images and one for
vertical also create the created the
folder where all watermark images will
go
so or over my all horizontal watermark
images will go to this folder and we are
creating another four verticals
ok so we closed that we go to photoshop
and as you can see from the previous
time we still have our watermarks folder
we want to create a new
watermark action which will also allow
us to open images and then put the
watermarking them and then save them
into certain place to that folder where
we what we create this is good when you
for example we have no time to play with
watermarks
so change the placement stop you want to
put the same watermark of every image
let's say you have like hundreds of
images you have to give to the client
the usually when i get images to the
client they give them images they can
print and then also images which they
can put to the lab which already resize
in which already have my water market
them because this is a good exposure to
let's say they are putting images on
facebook in the people who watch those
images will know
this images were taken by so let's
create the action for that we mark this
one more folder and then we add a new
one tomorrow by clicking on this icon
which looks like a piece of paper and we
will name it
watermark it's safe because this
watermark so images and saves though
when you can call it whatever you want
and we click on record and then we just
repeat all the steps with it before but
here we will have a few additional steps
and see easy exposure
I'll drop shadow
ok pacity ok this steps were recorded
and now some new steps when you're happy
with you want to mark flatten your
layers highlight all the layers the
background layer and layer where more to
market and right click and then there
will be this popup menu and just click
on flatten image and then we are meeting
in which is flattened it wasn't recorded
into the action and now go to file save
as you can find the folder where you
want to save them which is more
horizontal folder
make sure the form of his JPAC and click
on save
ok and the same was recorded right here
as well and then we want to stop her
action stopped our action by clicking on
the square and now we're going to bash
process are the images which are in our
horizontal images folder so to do that
we go to file automate and batch and
here is important to choose the
watermarks act which is water marks and
the action which is what I want to save
that there is a drop down menu you can
choose from
also you want to choose your source
folder click on choose and you look for
your source for third in my case it's
resize horizontals where my resize
images are which are not watermark which
is this folder and also I leave all
those things and check and then I choose
my destination folder that's where my
watermark images will call this folders
watermark horizontals and click Choose
you can also change the names but I will
just leave it a document
and when you're done with these just
click ok and the images will start
process of automatic
now we can go to our form now we only
have three images of that folder will
take longer of classical more
now we go to this folder and the check
if our images are watermark
yes images appear here see
and as you can see our images are
watermark was the same watermark
how easy was that
you can also place your log on the
images and for example somebody designed
to longer you designed it you want to
have it on transparent background and if
it's on transparent background you have
like it
checkerboard looking image like behind
behind the logger is like a checkerboard
background and you wanted to be saved as
PNG file
why PNG file because PNG files can hold
transparent backgrounds because the view
for example would say this as the gym
bag
background just would turn white so you
have your longer on the PNG file and
then you go to your image and you know
where you save your log of course and
then you will click on file and you
click on place and then you can find
your ball go in your folders where you
saved it
you choose it as you can see it PNG file
and then you click on place and the log
will be placed on the image and then you
can scale it place it like this
and if you want to place your log on the
multiple images you can build the action
the same as they did for a watermark
lago was a five-tool the only difference
is when you record your action instead
of creating the log was time to you go
to file and click on place and place
your log and you can record the same the
same actions as we did for the longer
which was tight with the copyrights
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