Watermark Logo Photoshop

[Muriel Trettin]

Likeother small business owners, professional photographers need to guard against theft while ensuring they get credit for their work. With a watermark, you can share your photographs online without worrying about losing them to intellectual property thieves.

Your watermark can also become a key part of your brand identity. If you use it consistently as you build your photography business, your watermark can become as recognizable as any major business or fashion logo.

While you can add your name or company name as an all-text watermark to any image, you may want to use a logo or brand mark instead. If your photography business already has a branding kit, you can easily maintain your brand identity by turning your custom logo into a watermark. Just bring the logo into Photoshop as a PSD file, add it to one of your Creative Cloud Libraries, and skip to the section below on how to apply watermarks to your images.

Start with a large canvas, like 1920x1080. With that, not only will it work digitally, but you can make the watermark at a high resolution so you can print it in a large size without pixelation, if necessary.

If you want to use your signature or other handwritten script, use a tablet and a pen tool to get the most natural look. Most of the time, watermarks are white so they show up on the photograph, but you can pick any color you want. If your brand includes a gold logo, go for it. To invert your black watermark to white, press Command + I on a Mac or Control + I on a PC. You can also use different brushes to achieve ink or watercolor effects.

To add type, pick your font. Use the font Bodoni on your business card to convey just the right high-end interior design vibe. Or try Choc font to create a Brooklyn design studio style. Create a text box by clicking the T to open the Type tool. Type your name and then adjust the size, position, and opacity you desire.

With social media and online content being such widely used outlets for photographers to showcase their images, it is more important than ever to protect them the best you can to prevent them from being claimed by other photographers.

Making sure you are working on the new layer, select the text tool. Now click anywhere on the image to begin adding the text. Choose the font, text size, and color you desire, and then type the text you want to use.

Start by opening your actions panel. Next, click on the "Create New Action" button at the bottom of the Actions Panel. This button looks like a square with a corner folded up. When you click this, a new dialog box will open, asking you to name your action, so go ahead and do that. Then press the "Record" button.

Now all the steps you take in Photoshop will be recorded. Just follow the steps we described above to add your watermark. When you are finished adding the watermark to your image, press the "Stop" button to tell Photoshop to stop recording what you are doing.

Now, the process of adding a watermark to your image has been turned into an Action. To run the action you just created, highlight the action and press "Play." Once the action runs and adds your text, you can go into the layers panel to select the text and make any necessary changes, including changing the text location or the color.

Another way to watermark your images is to add a logo or design. In most cases, this would be one you have already created (or had made for you) to use for your advertisement purposes, such as your website, business cards, flyers, etc.

Once again, be mindful of the logo design you are using. The logo on your website or business cards may NOT be the best one to use for watermarking purposes. You may need to change the color to something more simple and less distracting, like black or white.

Adding a watermark using a custom Photoshop brush is probably the FASTEST and EASIEST way to add watermarks to your photos quickly. You can set this up with both a text or logo design.

You will also need to make sure that your logo is on a white background before creating a brush with it. So make any adjustments you need to (as far as resolution and grayscale) before converting it to a brush.

If you plan on creating more than one watermark brush (maybe one for a logo/design and a separate one for basic text), make sure to name them accordingly. After naming your brush, press OK to save it. You now have a custom watermark brush ready to use at any time!

From now on, it won't be necessary to repeat these steps each time you want to use your watermark brush. It will automatically be saved in Photoshop once you complete the steps to name and define it. Then, adding a watermark to your image will be as easy as selecting your brush and placing it wherever you like!

Watermarking images is an important part of photography. If you follow these steps, adding watermarks to your photos can become a very quick and easy process, ESPECIALLY if you turn your watermark into a Photoshop Action or Brush to save even MORE time!

Do you have any questions or comments about How to Make a Watermark in Photoshop? Leave us a comment below - we would LOVE to hear from you! And PLEASE SHARE this tutorial using the social sharing buttons (we really appreciate it)!

Thanks for reaching out. How are you adding the watermark? Are you using iOS, Android, or the Desktop version of Photoshop Express? As you mentioned, the logo shows cropped after import; you can try reducing its size. Moreover, if you click and hold the watermark, you can move it around. Did you try doing it?

Long time photoshop user first time express user. I'm getting the same error on imported PNG logos. Adobe express is cropping the edges to the edges of the pixels - even if I import a PNG with a larger transparent area adobe express still cropps it right up to the pixel edge which results in a cropped image when I reduce the logo smaller. this is terrible.

I can add a watermark (logo) to the images during the Export function and then have the image available for other websites, but I can't work out how to simply add the logo and keep it in Lightoom itself.

Is there any way that I can place a watermark on the right bottom of multiple images, no matter what dimension the images are? I have tried using Photoshop Scripts > image processor, but it works only for images of same dimension. I want to put watermark on multiple images of different dimensions. This is the output i got.

This is not going to work as the logo needs to be resized to fit each document. Each document could be vastly different in size, therefore actions can not work, a script is required to work out the placement and size of the logo so no matter what size the document the logo will appear as the same proportions and in the correct position.

Just make the logo you "PLACE" absolutely massive size wise (in the orginal file) so that it will "at least" be bigger width wise than the largest image you will ever be processing. That way when you PLACE the logo it will come it at the full width of the current image. Then it's just a case of setting a scale action to change the logo to a % of the main image width - eg 50%, or 30% etc. Once it has been scaled you can then carry on with the usual repositioning actions to move it to the bottom right of the image.

Basically by having the orginal logo file huge means the size of it will be constrained relative to the new image when it is placed, that way you can resize according the main images dimensions rather than be constrained by the width of the logo.

I have a watermark in my brushes folder. (For single photos I use brackets on keyboard to change size.) I'd like to watermark my images at the same time they're being batch processed for the internet. The size of each file is the same and size of each watermark is the same.

How do I take that brushstroke I have and transform it to something in a folder so the one batch action will go to File>>Place and do what you're writing about? BTW my Photoshop has File>>Place Embedded, File>>Place Linked. I realize this is Photoshop two years after you first posted.

Best solution is make the logo in a new document with the margin you want in the photo on the right and bottom. Then place/link this psd in the photo and align it bottom/right and you done. This will work in all photos no matter if its horizontal or vertical.

With the rise of digital photography, more and more of us are sharing our images on the internet. This is a great way to get advice, improve your technique, and meet likeminded people, but it does have a downside - copyright theft.

It's becoming increasingly important to protect your images and prevent (or at least dissuade) unscrupulous people from using them without your permission. Adding a watermark to your photos is the ideal way to do this.

Applying a watermark in Photoshop is quick and easy. You can add a simple text watermark or one based around a logo or image; I'll describe each in turn. For this tutorial I'll be using the following image - feel free to download it and follow along.

With the new layer selected, choose the Text tool. Click anywhere on the image and type your copyright notice. Don't worry about the font, size, position, or colour for now; we'll change all of these in a minute.

If you'd like to add any special characters (such as the copyright symbol), you can insert these using the Windows Character Map (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map) or Mac OS X's Character Pallette (Edit > Special Characters). As a shortcut, the copyright symbol () can be inserted in Windows by holding Alt and typing "0169" on the numeric keypad, and in Mac OS X by pressing Option+G.

Select the Text tool and highlight your copyright notice. Use the toolbar to change the font face and colour to suit your personal tastes. You can also play around with the font size, although we'll be resizing the watermark in the next step anyway.

Next you need to choose where your watermark is going to go. I like to put mine on an area of roughly even colour where it isn't obscuring the main subject of the shot, usually near a corner. You might like to make yours more prominent, so do whatever you prefer.

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