Photoshop Watermark, Photoshop Copyright, Add A Copyright Watermark Pattern To A Photo

Photoshop Watermark: Add A Copyright Watermark Pattern

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Written By Steve Patterson

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to easily add a copyright watermark pattern to a photo.

If you're one of the many digital photographers or designers who are using the web these days either to show a client the work you've done for them or to show off your portfolio, one of the major concerns is that someone out there is going to steal your work. And while there's no guarantee that anything you do will stop them, there are things we can do to make life more difficult for them.

One of those things is to add a copyright watermark to your images, and in this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to see how easy it is to do.

We'll use this photo as our example:

The original image

Let's say this was a photo I took for a client and I want to show it to them as a proof. Before I go showing it to them or anyone else, I'm going to first take a couple of minutes and add my copyright information as a watermark across the image.

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Step 1: Open A New Blank Document With A Transparent Background

Go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and select New... to bring up the New Document dialog box. I'm going to enter 6 inches for the width, 4 inches for the height, and 300 pixels/inch for the resolution. For Background Contents, make sure you set it to Transparent by clicking on the down-pointing arrow and selecting it from the list:

The New Document dialog box
Photoshop Copyright Watermark: Photoshop's New Document dialog box.

Click OK, and the new blank document appears:

The new blank document
Photoshop Copyright Watermark: The new blank document with a transparent background.

Step 2: Type Your Copyright Information

Grab your Type tool from the Tools palette or by pressing T on your keyboard. Then press D on your keyboard to set black as your foreground color if it isn't already, and enter your copyright information.

To access the copyright symbol "©", press Option-G on a Mac, or hold down the Alt key on Windows and enter 0169 on the numeric keypad. I'll enter "© 2007 Patterson Photography":

Adding copyright information
Photoshop Copyright Watermark: Typing my copyright information.

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