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.
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