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Why are Watermarks Important?
Why are Watermarks Important?
First things first – what is a watermark? A watermark is an image, overlay, or text that's placed over a digital asset. Usually, the image will be monochromatic and transparent, to enable others to still view the asset.
It’s important to secure your assets with watermarks in order to protect content and claim ownership. Without watermarks, your valuable digital assets can be susceptible to content theft or unauthorized use. The top three benefits of watermarking include:
Brand Consistency - Watermarking protects your assets and helps to keep your brand safe, eliminating the risk of them being misused. Watermarks can provide clarity when assets are meant to be viewed, but not shared.
Asset Protection - Watermarks are used to protect images and visual files from being stolen and used or altered without the owner’s permission.
DIRECTIONS
DIRECTIONS
First pick a name you want to use for your watermark.
It may simply be your name or a clever made-up one. It does not have to have photography in the watermark:
1. Making the Canvas for your logo
Open Photoshop
Go to-
File
New
Width 5 inches
Height 2.5 inches
Resolution 200
Pick Background color
2. Typing the Words
Click on the T on the left side to create a Text box
Drag the text box tool over your empty box
Leave a tiny space around it
3. How Big to Make the font?
Start typing in your watermark name
Don’t make your font too small
It MUST fill up the majority of the canvas space
If it is Highlight your text and change the font size at the top of photoshop
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4. Tilting Your Text
Click on the T at the top
Change the style to what every type you would like
5. Color Change
You can also change the color of the text by highlighting the text and picking a new color found at the bottom right of photoshop
If you only want part of the font to change colors, only highlight the section you want to chang
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6. Adding a Shape
Right click on the Rectangle
Pick Custom Shape Tool
Click on the circle at the top middle
Pick All
Click
ok
You can now pick any shape
Draw the shape where you would lik
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To make the shape bigger or smaller click CONTROL and T
Drag your shape where you would like
You will now have 2 layers on the layers panel
7. Changing the Shape Color
Right Click on the Gradient Tool
Pick the Paint Bucket Tool
When it asks if you want to rasterize your layer click ok
Click the color you would like from the color box picker at the bottom of the tool
bar
With the Bucket Tool, click DIRECTLY on the shape that you want to change color
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8. Saving your watermark
When you are completely done with your watermark
Right click on your layers pallet
Merge Visible
If it does not show the option of Merge Visible click
SHIFT-CONTROL-E
You will now have only one layer and you are ready to save it
Go to – File
Save a COPY as a PNG
Name Your file Logo
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