Hey guys! This is Janine from Pangolin. Welcome back to my Lightroom course for wildlife photographers.
This is the beginner course, but if you haven't yet, please sign up on our website because soon we are
gonna start a second course with more advanced Lightroom techniques. Today I would like to speak to you
about watermarking your images. It is not the most intuitive feature of Lightroom, and it can
become a little bit frustrating, so let me help you with those presets...and let's get started!
All right, if I would like to export this image, and I want that image
to not just have my metadata embedded in it, but actually have my name on it, I can very
easily do that during my export process. I would press file. Go to the drop down menu under export,
and open my drop down menu, watermarking. You simply tick that little box, and then you can open
all your presets. Those are my presets because I do not want to change my watermark every single time.
I have a black watermark, and a white watermark...and I have all potential locations around the frame -
within the image - plus a center location if I want my watermark to take up most of the space.
So, how do you set up watermarks? What you simply do, is you say...edit your watermark.
Up here on the left hand side, you have the option to choose any of your existing presets.
You can change that preset, and re-save it. You can restore it to its old condition, or
you can simply delete it, or rename it. How do I set-up my watermark? You can choose from two
options. You can simply write your name, or the text that you want, with a font that Lightroom
provides you with. Your second option is to import a graphic. You have an image option...
and I have my private font called 'hopeless giraffe'. I thought that was quite appropriate.
If you want to use a text option...here you have the font, the style...you can align it and choose a color
in order to create a text file. The most interesting drop down
menu, is your watermarked effects. You can choose sparse your watermark will be.
The size of your watermark...and where will it be placed on a vertical as well as a horizontal line.
Your initial anchor points are nine options, which sort of makes placing your watermark a little bit
cumbersome. You don't want your watermark to be so big that it distracts your picture, but at the same
time you want to make sure everybody knows this is your image...and it becomes difficult to cut it out.
Once you're happy with the look of it, you can press save and automatically.
You can choose a preset name. This preset name I would call 'black top middle'.
If you simply wanted to change an existing preset that you have already had previously,
you can say 'save current settings as new preset'...rather than giving it a whole new name.
Once you've set-up enough presets for you can place your watermark at the top, the bottom,
left and right, or wherever you want it...it becomes very easy.
I would like it at the 'black top middle', as it was very visible in that place.
I am going to export it...and your name will then appear on the image.
Easy as that! So now it depends on where you would like to make use of the image. If you're worried it
is going to be stolen, make your name bigger.
but, if you just use it for private purposes, I don't personally think that is necessary.
This is the end to our Lightroom course for wildlife photographers...the beginner section.
Now you have all the tools to get started and ready...and when you test it on your own
images, please come back. We will soon have a follow-up course with more advanced Lightroom techniques.
Bye, bye!