Tututorial on Watermarking Your Work
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:25 pm
[b]Ok This is a Tututorial on how to create a Watermark Text on an image you've Created This method is a good way to use for like if you want to mark your work so no one can take credit for it like a copyright kind of thing lmao or want to descretly want to but your website url.
Steps for watermarking:
1.Open the image youll be watermarking.
2.on your right you have your matirials colour ect... you will only need 2 colors
black and white. Black for the out line and white for the fill of your text the top
box is your outline color so it should be black and the box underneith would be
white.
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/ColorsBox.gif[/img]
3.Click the text button on your left hand side
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/TextButton.gif[/img]
then at the top make your stroke Width value 1.0 this is for your outline part of
your TEXT.
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/StrokeWidth.gif[/img]
4.click on your image that you are working on and pick the Font you wish to use
soon as you pick your font and text you wish to use click ok move the text were
you would like to have the watermark Text. I picked Arial Black for an example
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/placeText.gif[/img]
now go to your right were your layer dialog is and right click on the vector layer
and click convert to raster layer now it should be a raster layer
5.Go to Effects at the top of Paint Shop Pro then to Texture Effects and click
Emboss your text should look like this
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/Embossed.gif[/img]
now that you've have used embossed your text go to your text layer and right
click and click properties.
6.Go to Blend mode in the general tab and make the blend mode Soft Light
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/Properties.gif[/img]
Click OK and your end Product should look something like this
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/WaterMarkKG.gif[/img]
this is how i do watermark's Cheers every one (grin) [/b]
Steps for watermarking:
1.Open the image youll be watermarking.
2.on your right you have your matirials colour ect... you will only need 2 colors
black and white. Black for the out line and white for the fill of your text the top
box is your outline color so it should be black and the box underneith would be
white.
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/ColorsBox.gif[/img]
3.Click the text button on your left hand side
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/TextButton.gif[/img]
then at the top make your stroke Width value 1.0 this is for your outline part of
your TEXT.
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/StrokeWidth.gif[/img]
4.click on your image that you are working on and pick the Font you wish to use
soon as you pick your font and text you wish to use click ok move the text were
you would like to have the watermark Text. I picked Arial Black for an example
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/placeText.gif[/img]
now go to your right were your layer dialog is and right click on the vector layer
and click convert to raster layer now it should be a raster layer
5.Go to Effects at the top of Paint Shop Pro then to Texture Effects and click
Emboss your text should look like this
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/Embossed.gif[/img]
now that you've have used embossed your text go to your text layer and right
click and click properties.
6.Go to Blend mode in the general tab and make the blend mode Soft Light
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/Properties.gif[/img]
Click OK and your end Product should look something like this
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/WaterMarkKG.gif[/img]
this is how i do watermark's Cheers every one (grin) [/b]