Making Your Own Watermark with Photoshop

By Waseem Khan
2008-03-07


Photoshop Watermark Tutorial

Step 1:

Open a 300x300 transparent layer in Photoshop.

Step 2:

Type/insert your text, nick or logo to use as your watermark.
The font I have used is Scriptin.

Step 3:

Go to File > define pattern. Save your pattern as any name you wish.

Your custom watermark is already made! The Upcoming steps are just about how to use it with your projects.

Step 4:

Open a random file, or you can use the file I have used .
The file is copyright protected, so no using it elsewhere =).

After choosing our file, we will insert our pattern which we just made.
Illustration is shown below.

 

Step 5:

Click on 'Pattern' and apply your pattern . You will have to choose your pattern from the different patterns there. The one you have created will probably be the last one listed.

 

Step 6:

Reduce the opacity to make it look milder/smoother. It's up to you as to how much you would like to reduce the opacity as it depends on your personal taste. I have reduced it to 22%.

The finished file:

Thanks for viewing my tutorial .
Stay tuned for more innovative tutorials in the future =) .
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ryanhellyer March 7, 2008, 7:06 pm Interesting. I've always done that by just setting a semi-transparent layer with my watermark in it. [COLOR=#333333][URL="http://www.developertutorials.com/authors/228"]Waseem Khan[/URL]'s method will work no matter how large the image is and you don't need to manually replicate it across a larger image to create the effect which seems like a great idea. It would probably make water marking large numbers of image easier too. [/COLOR]

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