Watermark

[TMG1961]

After i reinstalled my laptop i found out that my lightroom didn't have the watermark i used saved, was just a simple text based one. So i needed a new one. I spent the day on how to create watermarks and turning them into brushes and png files and how to apply them. Still rubish at it, but kept me off the street today.

I use lightroom and photoshop. It made me think when should i add the watermark? When exporting the photo from lightroom as jpeg or in photoshop? Or do you use another program just for the watermark?

 

[Chavezshutter]

I have used watermarks for when I have made photos for a customer and I want to show them possible candidates for a final, edited shot. I used Photoshop and turned my watermark into a brush, saved the brush and now I can add it from there whenever I need it. If you plan to use your watermark more often and prefer to do most of your editing via Lightroom then it makes sense to have it within Lightroom and add watermark when exporting from there. Whether you need to adjust things like size, location, opacity for a watermark in Lightroom will depend on the photo, but once you have all those things set you can save them to a preset and simply keep using the same preset for you photos, only adjusting it for photos that dont suit the old watermark preset and then you save those newly adjusted watermark presets and so on. Eventually you will have enough presets to deal with almost any photo.

 

[Jack]

Hello TMG1961 ,

I would suggest to export watermark images directly from Lightroom if you are planning to upload them somewhere, but if you want to keep them on laptop for yourself, you can export them without the watermark.



You can ask on the forum for watermark help, and I'll be happy to do my best to create some for you.

 

[TMG1961]

Hello TMG1961 ,

I would suggest to export watermark images directly from Lightroom if you are planning to upload them somewhere, but if you want to keep them on laptop for yourself, you can export them without the watermark.



You can ask on the forum for watermark help, and I'll be happy to do my best to create some for you.

Thank you, i made 2 simple versions. Of each version i made one with black letters and one with white letters. Only difference between them is that one version has the word photography under my name.

 

[Jack]

Thank you, i made 2 simple versions. Of each version i made one with black letters and one with white letters. Only difference between them is that one version has the word photography under my name.

Let me know what you have in mind.

• How you'd like the watermark to look
• Any png renders (link please)
• Name of the watermark
• Colours

A watermark should be very simple. Making to complicated will distract the attention from the photo.

 

[TMG1961]

These are the 2 i made, also made them with white letters. exported them as jpeg so i could upload them.

 

[Jack]

These are the 2 i made, also made them with white letters. exported them as jpeg so i could upload them.
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Personally I don't like them. To complicated for my eyes. But that's my opinion.

 

[TMG1961]

I know it is a bit much, but was happy i even managed to create them. Still struggling in photoshop with adding them either by using png file or using a brush. In lightroom you always need to adjust were the watermarks is going to be placed and how visible/large it is for every single photo. I have to think about what way i will go, watermark or no watermark. Lucky for me my photos are not in danger of anyone stealing them to make money with them

 

[Jack]

I know it is a bit much, but was happy i even managed to create them. Still struggling in photoshop with adding them either by using png file or using a brush. In lightroom you always need to adjust were the watermarks is going to be placed and how visible/large it is for every single photo. I have to think about what way i will go, watermark or no watermark. Lucky for me my photos are not in danger of anyone stealing them to make money with them

If you give me the info I asked above, I'll try to make you some.

I know, but having watermark on images sometimes is useful, you never know who might be interested using your picture without your permission. I would say to set them at the bottom of the page in the left or right.

 

[TMG1961]

If you give me the info I asked above, I'll try to make you some.

I know, but having watermark on images sometimes is useful, you never know who might be interested using your picture without your permission. I would say to set them at the bottom of the page in the left or right.

I appreciated that you want to make them for me. But i want to do it myself, i need to learn how to do things myself. It will take much longer for me, unfortunately working with photo software is not my strong point and a lot of things i still do not understand. It took me almost 4 hours to make those 2 png files and create the brushes.