Add a Watermark before Posting Your Images on the Web

Watermark your Photos for Copy Protection

Placing an overlay watermark on images that you plan to post on the Web will identify them as your own work and discourage people from copying them or claiming them as their own. You can add a semi-transparent overlay to many images automatically when you use the Web Photo Gallery Creator feature in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Just look under the "Security" section of the setup dialog.

The choices available include custom text, copyright notice, the filename, a caption, credits, or title. Note that some of these options will only exisit if you have added them to the IPTC data through the "File Info" command in Photoshop, or through another image manager that supports IPTC data.

You can also control the color, font, size, and position of the watermark text. Some options you may want to use for the custom text would be "Proof", "Sample", your company name and URL, or the copyright symbol.

Related Resources:
• How To Create a Web Photo Gallery With Photoshop
• How To Add a Text Watermark to a Photo in Photoshop 5.5 or higher
• How To Add a Text Watermark to a Photo in Photoshop Elements

Compatibility: Photoshop 7.0 and higher, Photoshop Elements 2.0 and higher.

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