Batch Watermarking & Adding Copyright with Photoshop
This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can easily add transparent watermark and copyright info to a whole folder of photos.
NOTE: If you just want to apply watermark to a photo, you can skip step 1, 8 and 9
Step 1) Open your image, go to your actions pallete and create a new action. I’d call it ‘watermark’.
Step 2) Now create a new layer, choose custom shape tool and click on the copyright sign.
Step 3) Draw a black copyright sign on your image.
Step 4) Apply emboss filter to your copyright sign ( filter> stylize>emboss).
Step 5) Change your layer mode to hard light.
Step 6) Now choose Horizontal Type Tool from your Tool Pallete, and write anything you want to say under your big copyright sign. Repeat step 4 & 5 to your text. Here’s mine:
Step 7) To embed a copyright note go to file>file info to bring up the file info dialog. This is where you enter information that you want embedded into the file itself.
Step 8 ) When you’re done, click on the stop icon at the bottom of the Actions Pallete.
Step 9) The last step, go to file>automate>batch (or from adobe bridge, go to tools>photoshop>batch). Choose your actions’s name and click on ‘Choose’ to choose your folder full of photos, then under ‘Destination’ choose ‘Save and Close’. This will apply the watermark, and copyright info to your images and then save and close the documents.
Done!
See also: Photoshop Tutorials
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good website…very helpful…just add video tutorials…tnx
wow, i think it is kinda kool!
7/10
I’ve tried various ways of automating the watermarking of photos, but they always come out at different sizes and positions in different photos, depending on the photo size, orientation and resolution. Does anybody have a “one-size-fits-all” way of watermarking pictures?
I tried this action and it works great but is there a way to get rid of the rasterize dialogue boxes so that it just runs without stopping until the end without writing a script because I’m not good at coding.
Hi all.
Tango Fox1, if You have allready made action, You can add rasterize command just after that Make fill layer command. Select Make fill layer and select from Actions menu (small round blue button) Insert Menu Item… and select from menu Layer - Rasterize - Layer. Klik ok and it’s ready. If new command went in wrong place just drag it with mouse to right place. I made two of these. One for landscape and second for portrait pictures.
ps. Sorry my english.
Thanks, those rasterize popup were very frustrating. As I am new to the photoshop action, it took me a while to find the ad menu.. But in the end it worked. I had to move around the added menu int eh action to make it work.
Great tutorial, everything worked out fine, well displayed and your English is fine, understandable anyway, does what it says on the can.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the excellent tutorial.
This works so much easier than some of the other methods I’ve tried.
All the best,
Elizabeth
wow!!! Thankssss! Interesting to know, but i ussually do this in special programm. It is easier)
http://pickyfiles.com/~d9sb/watermark-photo
This is a great tutorial.. Thanks!
As a photographer, I have been adding layers manually to write text and this is exactly what I wanted to learn the visual helps a lot.
The only thing I ahve not figured out is that my action works BUT I noticed that I may have to move the text to different place depending on the photographs. Not sure if I have to create a new action acript or make the changes in the current script. The watermarks I created do,t seem to be in the right place and the C for copywrite is to big.
Other then that , I really want to thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’m using CS4, I’m following these directions precisely but when I automate-batch all of my photos become embossed. Any ideas?
it sounds ln your actions you have allowed the Emboss to be applied to the whole photo and not the selected water mark. try deleting the emboss command and re inserting the action.
Cool… this is great… thanks for the detailed step by step guide!
Great tutorial, i’ve just used it and it’s very easy and helpful.
Thanks a lot
Is there a way that the picture can be save in jpeg
instead of psd automatically.
thanks
After step 7, before stopping the action in step 8, flatten the image (layer>flatten image) and then go to step 8. Hope this helps.
Great tutorial, everything worked out fine,
Once you create the watermarks on a batch of photos how do you remove them from the same batch in order to restore to original condition or does this need to be done indiviually in photoshop?