a few years back I published a video on how to Watermark batches of photos using the Photoshop
macro this is a great way to add a watermark to a lot of photos but I'm always getting emails
from people who are struggling with the macros so in this video I'm going to show you an easy
alternative let's start by creating a watermark to use as that's something else that I'm often asked
about I'll first create a new empty document from the file menu which is where I'll create
the watermark for this I'm using the 1920x1080 preset and a white background there's a reason for
setting the background to White which you'll learn about later next I'll select the artistic text
tool and set the font to whisper I'm using whisper as it's a script font designed to look like
handwriting it's also free to download from the internet if you don't have it installed I'll share
the link to it in the YouTube video information to create the watermark text I'm going to use the
artistic text tool set to Black I can then click on the document and enter my first name and click
to apply it then I'll click again which adds a second text layer to the document this is where
I want to add my website address so that people know where to find me as before I'll enter the
text and then click to apply it to the layer now we can adjust some of the type settings to produce
a better design for the watermark although the benefits of text layers in Photoshop is that you
can continue to edit their settings if I select my website address I can change the font to helvetica
I'll also select the text weight as light after that I'll set the text to be capitalized and
I can set a wider spacing between the letters although the largest spacing in the drop down
is 200 you can enter higher values by clicking and typing I also think the watermark will look a
little better if my name was rotated slightly for that I'll use the move tool in the tools palette
I can use this to click the text of my name which selects it and surrounds it with a box
when I position my mouse pointer near the outside of the box the pointer changes to show of curved
Arrow I can then click and drag with my mouse to rotate the text I think that I'll also add a thin
line to the watermark to separate my name and the website address I can do this with the line tool
which you'll also find in the Photoshop tools palette it's grouped with several other shape
tools so one of those might be visible instead as with the watermark text I want this to be a black
line and I'm going to make it around 3 pixels thick using the weight setting the best way to use
will depend on the size of the watermark you're creating I'm trying to use a line weight that's a
similar thickness to the font used for the website address after applying these settings I can click
and drag to draw the line on the image now you can see the three components of the watermark
as separate layers in the image if I select the move tool again I can use it to reposition and
even resize the individual elements when these are in position I'll select all three by clicking on
the top layer then whilst holding down the shift key on my keyboard I'll click the bottom layer now
right click on one of the layers using your mouse to display a layer pop-up menu make sure you right
click on the layer name and not the thumbnail or you'll see a different menu then choose the
link layer option in the menu to link the three layers together now we can see the link icon to
the right of the link layers this means that when we resize any of the layers it keeps the others
in proportion so our Watermark still looks good let's now select the area around the watermark
I'll use the rectangular Marquee tool to do this which you'll find in the Photoshop tools
palette there are a few selection tools in the same group so one of these might be displayed
instead I can then click and whilst holding down my mouse button drag as I drag you'll
see a rectangular selection appear around the watermark if I don't get the watermark quite
in the center of the selection I can click and drag the selection to reposition it once it's
in place I can select the edit menu and choose the default brush preset option what this does
is State the selection as a custom brush which we can name in the dialog I'll call this brush Robin
Watermark and click the OK button now we can use our custom brush to quickly Watermark our photos
first open the image or images that you want to Watermark in Photoshop although you can apply
the watermark directly to the image it's better to apply it to an empty layer you can add a new empty
layer to the image in the layer menu by selecting the new Option alternatively you can use the new
layer icon at the bottom of the layers window now choose the brush tool in the tools palette
and select the watermark brush as this is a brush we can use the square bracket keys on our keyboard
to change its size notice that the watermark brush appears as an outline which is going to
be filled with the color we select I'm going to use white as the color of the watermark but you
can choose a different color if you like now the reason that I used white for the background when
we created our Watermark originally is that it's ignored when we save it as a brush the
darker the text the more solid a watermark is produced when saved which is why we use black
for our text now all we need to do is position and click to add the watermark and because the
watermark is on its own layer we can adjust the opacity of the layer and even the blend mode I can
even select the move tool and use this to resize and then reposition the watermark on the photo
when you have the watermark saved as a custom brush it's quick and easy to add it to any
image or batches of images you also have the advantage of being able to position it anywhere
on the photo of course this isn't going to help you if you have thousands of images to
Watermark for that you need to use my original macro solution which is a good video to watch
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