Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
If your images are going on the Web, there's not much to keep folks from taking
your images and using them in their own projects (sadly, it happens every day).
One way to help limit unauthorized use of your images is to put a visible water-
mark on them. That way, if someone rips them off, it'll be pretty obvious to
everyone that they've stolen someone else's work. Also, beyond protecting your
images, many photographers are using a visible watermark as branding and
marketing for their studio. Here's how to set yours up:
Step One:
To create your watermark, press
Command-Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Shift-E)
to bring up the Export dialog, then scroll
down to the Watermarking section, turn
on the Watermark checkbox, and choose
Edit Watermarks
from the pop-up menu
(as shown here).
Note:
I'm covering water-
marking here in the Export chapter,
because you can add your watermark
when you're exporting your images as
JPEGs, TIFFs, etc., but you can also add
these watermarks when you print an
image (in the Print module), or put it
in a Web gallery (in the Web module).
Step Two:
This brings up the Watermark Editor
(seen here), and this is where you either
(a) create a simple text watermark, or
(b) import a graphic to use as your
watermark (maybe your studio's logo,
or some custom watermark layout
you've created in Photoshop). You
choose either Text or Graphic up in
the top-right corner (shown circled
here in red). By default, it displays the
name from your user profile on your
computer, so that's why it shows my
copyright down in the text field at the
bottom of the dialog. The text is also
positioned right up against the bottom
and left borders of your image, but luckily
you can have it offset from the corners (I'll
show you how in Step Four). We'll start
by customizing our text.
