Water mark

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 17 Feb 2005 8:21 pm

How do you put a watermark on a photo?
I have Adobe Photo shop but see nothing about how to put a watermark on a photo.
Thanks.

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Gordon Borland
MSA D10,NASHVILLE 400,SESSIONS 2000,PEAVEY ADDVERB,SOME WIRES AND A BATTERY.

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 18 Feb 2005 4:19 am

Hi, Gordon -

Unless Adobe has added it, I don't think that function is included in Photoshop.

Watermarking is usually done with 3rd party software, and if you do a Google search on "watermark", you'll get a bunch of hits.

Here's one of the watermarking heavyhitters: http://www.digimarc.com/watermark/download/

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 18 Feb 2005 6:24 am

David,
Thank you very much.

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Gordon Borland
MSA D10,NASHVILLE 400,SESSIONS 2000,PEAVEY ADDVERB,SOME WIRES AND A BATTERY.

Dwayne Martineau · Post by **Dwayne Martineau** » 18 Feb 2005 9:53 am

What kind of watermark?

There are digital watermarks, which are invisible-- usually used to embed information about the copyright, author, etc. in an image file. To read one, you need to have the same software that wrote it (usually a Photoshop plug-in; Digimarc, for example).

If you're looking to make a regular paper-style watermark-- a faint, transparent logo, like on television or in high-quality writing paper-- you can do that within Photoshop by using a layer with low opacity.

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 18 Feb 2005 2:00 pm

Dwayne,
That is it!
I sell repo's from our service department on Ebay and have seen the faint logos on others pictures and that is what Iam after. I take great digital pictures of the merchandise and have noticed other people copying and useing my pictures that I took.
Thank you for your information.

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Gordon Borland
MSA D10,NASHVILLE 400,SESSIONS 2000,PEAVEY ADDVERB,SOME WIRES AND A BATTERY.

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 19 Feb 2005 12:16 pm

Well, if what you want to do is discourage plagiarism, rather than a watermark the image, which is intended to be hard to see, I'd probably do something more conspicuous, like this:

Even with Photoshop, it would be a little tougher to take that logo out of there.

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 19 Feb 2005 1:46 pm

That is exacally what I wanted to do.
How did you do that?
Thanks.

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Gordon Borland
MSA D10,NASHVILLE 400,SESSIONS 2000,PEAVEY ADDVERB,SOME WIRES AND A BATTERY.

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 19 Feb 2005 3:14 pm

<< That is exacally what I wanted to do. How did you do that?

Oh, great - yeah, after what you wrote back to Dwayne, I figured you were looking for something like that. Since you already have Photoshop, piece of cake.

For that one, I just saved the logo image from your web site, opened it in Photoshop, changed it to RGB mode, and dragged it over on top of the guitar image, which made it a new layer in that image. Then I reduced the opacity of the logo layer to about 30%, so the guitar shows through it. This one didn't even require resizing either image, although that's easy to do.

As you can see, in that one, I didn't spend any time dressing up the logo image, I just got rid of most of the black background so it wouldn't look "blocky" inside the guitar image.

Play around with some of these a little - they're easy to do. Just be sure to change the logo image to RGB mode or you won't be able to insert it into the other image.

Using the effects built into Photoshop, you can quickly move on to even more interesting ideas -

Any questions, email me.

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 19 Feb 2005 4:17 pm

David thank you so very very much.
The Republic of Texas ????
I just want you to know that I work in downtown San Antonio and go for an afternoon walk every day to the Alamo and back. When I get to the Alamo I go stand by the street preacher and when he takes a pause I yell out "we should have won!" The tourist have to usally stop and start to explain to their kids what the crazy man is yelling about!
"Remember the Alamo!!"

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Gordon Borland
MSA D10,NASHVILLE 400,SESSIONS 2000,PEAVEY ADDVERB,SOME WIRES AND A BATTERY.

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 20 Feb 2005 7:08 am

<< The Republic of Texas ????

Yeah, we're neighbors. I live up in Bulverde. I've been in your store a couple of times. Had some amp repair work done a couple of years ago, and we talked some about steel. I needed some picks, but you'all were out of stock ..

Seriously, let me know if you ever have any questions about the Photoshop stuff. I'm not an expert, but I play with it occasionally just for grins. <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Dave Potter on 20 February 2005 at 07:17 AM.]</p></FONT>

Gordon Borland · Post by **Gordon Borland** » 20 Feb 2005 9:48 am

David thank you sir!
I was going to stick your steel picture on the website on the roll over picture of the Babcock location where I still have the Kerry King promo but then thought you or the Fessey folks might not see the humor in that.
Thanks again and hope to see you in the store again! Let me know what picks you like and I will stock them and set them aside and always have them for you.

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Gordon Borland
MSA D10,NASHVILLE 400,SESSIONS 2000,PEAVEY ADDVERB,SOME WIRES AND A BATTERY.