hi everyone welcome or welcome back thank you so much for joining me today we're going to
do a video basically that's come out of the request box which is how do you apply
watermarks to photographs in photoshop
so this video is requested by claire and becky thank you guys you both put the same request in
the request box we're going to look at three different ways to apply watermarks to images
i've got this image up on the screen at the moment of alf and i'm going to be using
one of my own watermarks which is a signature to be able to do this you need to make sure
that your watermark that you're wanting to apply is a png document with a transparent background
if that's foreign just take a sec to make sure that you can go and check so you want that when
you look at your watermark file that it's a dot png file and that when you open it up into
photoshop the background of it has got these like cross hatches in the background i'm hoping you can
see those so if it doesn't have those go back to whoever designed your logo and ask them for
a transparent background png file when you have your png file you'll basically have something
that looks like this we're going to go through three different ways to apply you may already
know one or two of them but i'm going to basically run through my normal ones so the most easiest and
straightforward and simple way to go about adding a watermark to an image is definitely to just open
it up in your folder system and drag and drop it into photoshop that will put it in over the image
as a smart object which will be over there and you can resize that to suit and just put it wherever
you want to put it now handy little tip you can see that this is a black logo on a dark background
i've put down here in the corner if i press enter and lock in that transformation there you can
barely see it what it can do though is recolor everything in that logo to a different color
i do that by double clicking on the layer in the layer stack and then in the layer style
that's popped up switch it to color overlay and then in color overlay change the color to white
you can then change the opacity to 100 and click ok that will give you a white logo
now because you've colored it with that done you can then move your watermark wherever you want it
on the screen and change the opacity of the layer to suit the image that is method one reasonably
straightforward there let's delete that off and go into method number two method number two is my
preferred way of you know applying a watermark to an image i use my libraries so if you have
an adobe subscription on the cc you should have access to cc libraries if you don't have libraries
in your side tab well you can go and make your photoshop look like mine or you can go window
libraries now we'll open up this new little window now i've got a lot of libraries because
i've got a lot of different clients but you can create a new library and name it
so we can name this to i don't know jess why not and you'll end up with this gap here
now to have your watermark slash logo go into this section all you need to do is open it like we just
did earlier into photoshop with a transparent background and when you've got that you just
drag and drop this layer into the library and that will now pop that here so then you can go back to
your image and no matter what you're doing you can always go libraries and then click drag and drop
your watermark and move it around the image as needed so that is another option in terms of this
image we would probably use the white version so open with photoshop of the white version
click drag drop into libraries and then go back to our image click drag drop and pop our watermark in
i don't really know how to put it here let's go for here why not and then blend mode you can now
change your blend mode to be anything you want it to be to blend nicely with what's underneath it
okay so that is method two that's how i personally use the libraries to apply watermarks to images
it's just a really straightforward way and i've got these on all of my devices
perfect the third way to go about doing this is slightly more complicated but it can be more
creative so we'll go and look at it anyway so for this you need to have open your watermark
in photoshop like this and it doesn't matter if it's a white or a dark version it doesn't matter
what you need to then do is make sure that the pixels are trimmed around the edge so let's say
for example that your png file has space around it like this okay so let's just say you've opened up
your png file and it has space around the edges we don't want that space so the first thing you
need to do if you've got the space is go image trim and when you go on trim you need to make
sure that you're based on transparent pixels and have all of these options selected when you click
ok photoshop will take away anything that has not got any data in it perfect so at this stage we can
now go and create a brush from our watermark so we can go into edit and then define brush preset
and within define brush preset you would name your brush so watermark for example and click ok now
if we go back to our image and then go into our brush gallery one of them will be called whatever
you've just called it so in my case watermark and now if you hover over your image you should have
a watermark so you can change the color of this to whatever you want it to be so you could change it
to his like eye color for example making sure that the opacity is on 100 we can then create
a new layer i personally like to have it on a new layer but you can just paint it straight onto your
image and then just click once to apply your watermark just press v to get back to the move
tool because then you can move that around the image and change the blend modes just like normal
and that's that guys that's three ways to apply a watermark to an image in photoshop and i hope
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