Batch Watermarking & Adding Copyright with Photoshop

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.

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

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?

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

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?

Thanks Thanks and Thanks ! Best n easy tutorial, I have just used it and It is very easy and helpful.

Thanks,
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Hi
just used the tutorial but can anyone please let us know how to stop the the ‘j.peg options box’ when saving the image, so it saves and closes without asking the size…?

this takes up alot of time and would like to know how to do it without having to select okay 500 times..

thank you.x

I was searching for solution to automate water mark and copyright manipulation… This is the best example…

I did add the “Layer—>Rasterize—>Layer” to the actions. It works smooth…

Thanks for the article!!!

Joy

I hope this never leaves the world wide web. I’ve had to rely on this more than once. Thanks so much. This is a great tutorial.

This is a great tip, you can also the Alt and G in the add text section to add a copyright symbol, then enlarge it to what ever size you need around 96 point is fine. I also faded the layer to 49% it makes the watermark a little softer.

Thanks again for the top tip and tutorial.
Simeon Lloyd
professional Photographer

Just the best tool for watermarking…thnx a lot for the tut and coments, they were very very helpful.

thnx a lot.

Thanks for sharing – this was very helpful!

Tammy

DO the photos need to be saved in RAW?

Thanks,

Belen

To everyone asking about having the watermark automatically centralised, I’ve figured out a workaround. In the action do the watermark creation as a brand new image about 500×400 pixels. Rasterize both layers, select the transparency channel and copy. Then close the image and paste it in to the destination image. This will put it in the centre regardless of being landcsape or portrait. Now turn the layer to Hard Light, flatten image and it will save as part of the batch process. Much quicker. Hope this is easy to understand.

Thanks very much! One of the best watermark tutorials out there! Very easy to follow.

Great tutorial, thank you very much.

I use photoshop on one computer but the printer I use doesn’t accept photoshop documents so they NEED to be jpeg or it’s a lot of wasted effort (as I’ve just now realized after working two hours on the pictures I’m editing).

Is there a way to save all the items as .jpg instead of photoshop files in the automated method?

Thanks again!

Awesome for beginners like me ! Thanks a heaps

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong regarding the rasterize command but when I try to add it to the action, I can’t. I select the Make fill layer and follow the directions in the comment above, but when it comes to Layer>rasterize>layer, my ‘rasterize’ option isn’t available.

This is a very very helpful tutorial.

Using this tutorial as my guide, i made my procedure in batch watermaking my photos.

1. Open your photo.
2. Create/Record New Action, here where I created my personalized watermarks, then “save as” it as a “copy” jpeg file and then close the file “without” creating a PSD file.
3. Stop recoding.
4. Do Step 9 of the tutorial except under “Destination” choose “none”
5. Press Ok.

What will this do is to open a file from the specified folder, put your personalized watermarks, save a copy jpeg file, close the file without creating a PSD and then proceed to the next file.

Hope this will work to you, as it works very well to me.

I wanted to know how to do this but on Lightroom if anyone knows…thank you

Thanks for same.
I have just applied the above steps but after automateing the batch the size of Photo has increased to 42mb why? and now how to reduce to kbs or original normal size.

Please guide me ..

Regards

Yogesh.

Great tutorial, but… What if you wanted to use an image instead of text or a copyright shape?

Thanks,
A.

Nice tutorial.. simple to follow and good result… simply nice..

keep up good work

Thank you! Finally, a tutorial I can follow that actually works.

Cheers!

This section really hit home, The best way for me to place a transparent watermark on my artwork. Cheers

Andre

WoW!!! Thank you so much…. Easy to follow!! Very helpful for a newbie.

Thanks a ton for this tutorial!

It is very helpful for beginners in Photoshop!

Excellent! Such a nice and easy steps.
Thank you.

How long does this usually take because i followed your steps and its been going for like 30+ min

Great guide! popped a link to it on my website hope you dont mind

Ben

For batch photo watermarking you can use this application: http://bstdownload.com/reviews/batch-photo-watermark-2/

Really helpful article! Thanks a lot Dphotojournal team!

Sayan

Thanks so much for this, I used this tutorial about a year ago and have since transferred to Mac, thus losing all of my previously saved bookmarks. I just spent half an hour googling to find this. You are a lifesaver

Obviously this is for the latest version of PS. I only have CS4. Any suggestions besides the old way of adding a layer and then having to do the same routine every photo without writing a script?

I’m working on an online catalog for my designs, and I am grateful for the embossing idea. It is perfect for what I’m doing. My celtics take forever to do. It took years to learn. It would frustrate me to no end to see them being used without my permission!
I know it won’t stop them if they are determined, but this will make it harder while still letting real customers see the design underneath. I am working much too hard to just hand it to them! At least this way they have to work at it.
Thanks a million!

Very useful!
Thank you for this post!

Hi, Great site. I am batteling to set up a watermark for my photos. I cannot find the actions pallet. PLEASE HELP

@Ben, Click the Windows-Actions menu item and the Actions panel will appear.

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Got it all to work, except it now gives me a warning “this type layer must be rasterized before proceeding” when I try to emboss. It’s kind of annoying to have to click that every time when you batch process – what did I do wrong to get that warning?

Hi guys.
I made this 4th try without any success.
When I execute the batch or the action with a single opened photo, I get this message:

The object “style “Shape 1 style”" is not currently available.

Can anybody help me?
Thank you very much.
Ricky.

It’s hard to find well-informed people on this subject, however, you sound like you know what you’re talking
about! Thanks

Hi!
Thnx for this tutorial, but I still have a problem. I don’t see ‘tutorial’ at ‘actions’ only default actions or in a sub cat ‘wood frame’ ‘cast shadow’ and so on.

ANy idea?

Thanks this was very useful. Never bothered for years as I was only uploading to FB. But now my blog has full sized images and are being seen by people other than my friends.