wanna watermark your pics the easy way? come in

[ninobrn99]

Ok, so ive been looking and looking for ways to watermark my pics, but just couldnt find anything simple enough. I figured out how to make a custom brush in photoshop 7 and cs2 so that you can just use that.

open photoshop
Click File>new>4x6
Click transparent down at the bottom.
hit ctrl J to create a new layer
click on the text tool and make it the width of your canvas.
select the font you'd like to use and type in whatever you wish. You can then click on the 'T' with the arc below it and customize the view of the font or add a picture before hand and create a new layer then make the font... once you have your 'watermark' created, click on the hand or arrow in the toolbar to close the text box. then go to Edit>Define Brush and name it. Open up the brush pallette and it should be the last brush. You should be able to change the size of the brush as needed. To use it, pick out the picture you'd like to mark, fix what you want, then create a new layer and use the watermark, then use the opacity funtion to lighten it as needed. pretty simple. I found this tutorial online in case you should need some visual demo:
http://www.cbtcafe.com/photoshop/custombrush2/custombrush.html
I take no credit for it, just the find :D
Good Luck.
Nino

[tim]

Good idea, but for doing batches of images it needs to be an action. I think it's russell brown who did a video tutorial, but it might be "the light's right studio", can't remember.

[ninobrn99]

it was russell brown. I also dont have adobe illustrator and thats what he was using. Unless photoshop comes with that built in.

[GovMule]

Nino,
Let me 1st start by saying,I have very little experience with PS. I used your post to create a brush watermark I really like. Thank you ! Do you know,is there a way to edit an existing brush ?

[highbarger]

is there a way to edit an existing brush ?

There might be an easier way, but you could create a new document, click once in the center with the brush, make the changes that you want, then define brush. Now you have the original and the edited version.

[GaryMolen]

Good idea, but for doing batches of images it needs to be an action. I think it's russell brown who did a video tutorial, but it might be "the light's right studio", can't remember.

for batching, i use Batch Watermark Creator (http://www.easy-tools.net/batch-watermark/index.html), especially the 123 process, it's pretty quick.
http://www.easy-tools.net/batch-watermark/index.html
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/3003692257_02c8f0ccf6.jpg

[bohdank]

I downloaded Watermark Factory. It's free and is far simpler and faster than the method explained above.

[bildeb0rg]

I downloaded Watermark Factory. It's free and is far simpler and faster than the method explained above.

Does the free version still add their own logo (bottom left I think) to the mix?

[bohdank]

I did post "no"... now I am not that sure. It seems I have a registered copy.... I can't remember how I got it. It may have been one of those 1 day freebies off of a promotional website that I, once in awhile, stumble upon.

[ssim]

it was russell brown. I also dont have adobe illustrator and thats what he was using. Unless photoshop comes with that built in.
You don't need to have Illustrator to make the Russell Brown method work. If you use the make work path and insert path commands as shown it will work just fine.

I am a big fan of this method. I have taken this method and broken it down into smaller actions so that I can utilize parts of them in other actions but also so that I can substitute fonts and/or sizing. I have mine setup so that I can put text in 3 different spots in the image and then I can simply turn them on or off as the need arises. I normally start this from inside of Bridge by selecting the images that I want done and then go to Tools-Photoshop-Image Processor. I have done folders of close to 2000 images, walked away from the computer and came back to them all in their own folder.

I always try to accomplish things inside of photoshop first rather than installing additional software. If you ask a dozen photographers how they want watermark their images you will undoubtedly get many different answers. The right answer is the one that works for you. I suggest that you try these varying methods before you make a final decision.

[mzondeki]

Try This Script If you have ImageMagick Installed !! It works like a charm.
Try on one image first, adjust size, position of watermark. Here watermark text is "WATERMARK". If things are fine, Run the script for entire folder.

For each image , it will create a corresponding image in watermark folder

#!usr/bin/sh
echo "Creating Watermark"
convert -size 300x50 xc:grey30 -font Palatino-Italic -pointsize 24 -gravity center -draw "fill grey70 text 0,0 'WATERMARK'" wm0.png
convert -size 300x50 xc:black -font Palatino-Italic -pointsize 24 -gravity center -draw "fill white text 1,1 'WATERMARK' text 0,0 'WATERMARK' fill black text -1,-1 'WATERMARK'" +matte wm1.png
composite -compose CopyOpacity wm1.png wm0.png wm.png
mogrify -trim +repage wm.png
echo "done"

for i in `ls *.JPG`; do
echo "processing $i"
convert $i -unsharp 1.5x1.0+1.0+0.02 temp.jpg
composite -gravity southeast -geometry +0+24 wm.png temp.jpg watermarked/$i
rm temp.jpg
echo done
done

[hollis_f]

I downloaded Watermark Factory. It's free and is far simpler and faster than the method explained above.
Have they fixed the annoying bug that deleted all of the Exif info?

[Picture North Carolina]

I downloaded Watermark Factory. It's free and is far simpler and faster than the method explained above.

Have they fixed the annoying bug that deleted all of the Exif info?

LOL! That's funny. I couldn't think of a worse bug unless it deleted the image itself while watermarking it! :lol:

[bohdank]

Have they fixed the annoying bug that deleted all of the Exif info?

EXIF is there.

[ninobrn99]

Nino,
Let me 1st start by saying,I have very little experience with PS. I used your post to create a brush watermark I really like. Thank you ! Do you know,is there a way to edit an existing brush ?

sorry, i havent been on in a while. If you didnt get the answer already, I think you can just create a new brush. Use the one you want to edit and made adjustments and save.