Needing a watermark in outline only

[nesredep egrob]

So I created a signature and selected outline in Illustrator, easy. Then
according to Russel Browns lectures I created a box around it ready to copy.
However the box made it all turn up in blue patches. Regardless I pasted that
into my picture in photoshop and got the signature OK but it was all in black
instead of the OUTLINE that I originally made. RB says that you have to paste it
to PATH in Photoshop but that does not work and it appears as a layers in
ordinary text in the results on the photo.
I also tried to select just the signature and that also turns up with blue
patches on the type

Please, will somebody be so kind as to help

B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia

[Tiz Me]

Hi B|rge,

Another way to do this:
When I put a watermark on my paintings I just use text or an image and
change the transparency. I then flatten the image so the watermark
becomes part of it.
Sometimes I use text with a shadow before making it semi-transparent.

[tphinsf]

Birge,

If you're trying to follow this tutorial (http://av.adobe.com/
russellbrown/CS2WatermarkActionSM.mov),
are you converting your text to paths in Illustrator? From the
Illustrator main menu>Type>Create Outlines
Your issue sounds like you're cutting/pasting live text into PS.
Also, the "blue patches" sounds simply like what happens when you
Select graphics -- they becopme outlines ib blue (or whatever color
you've set up in Ai).

--th

--th

[nesredep egrob]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:50:23 -0700 (PDT), tphinsf <terry.h...@gmail.com>
wrote:

You are spot on. It is the russel Brown one I am trying to do - however he does
not explain too much about the generation of the signature in Illustrator as he
is mainly concerned with Photoshop - so if you cen enlighten me, please

Børge in sunny Perth, Australia

[tphinsf]

On Jun 23, 5:18 pm, nesredep egrob <Long. -31,48.21 Lat.
115,47.40> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:50:23 -0700 (PDT), tphinsf <terry.hemph...@gmail.com>

The only help I can offer is what I've already mentioned -- create
your signature in Illustrator (I assume you simply are using text/font
to create the logo you need). But before you copy/paste into PS, make
sure you convert your text into Outlines. To do so, select the text,
and then from the Illustrator main menu, select Type>Create Outlines.
That converts your text into plain vector paths rather than live text.
Russel emphasizes in the demo that the logo you are about to copy in
Illustrator must first be converted into vector paths.

--th