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How to Create Watermark Action in Photoshop

If you want to protect your photos from copying without giving credit to you, the easiest way is to use watermark

on photos by add some text or logo of yours to photos. But normally, you have many photos so watermarking each

photo manually wont be efficient. So what is the best way to add watermark to photos? Record a watermark action

is the answered. Once you have recorded an action which do watermark, you can replay it on many images as you

want with a single click.

On this example, I show how to record an Photoshop action which will add a simple text and align it at bottom right

on an image as watermark. I use Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Step-by-step

1. Open an image that you want to add a watermark on Photoshop. This image will be used as an example image

to c reate a watermark action.

2. Open Actions Window by select Window -> Actions on the menu bar or you can press Alt + F9.


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3. On Action window, click on Create new Action icon. This will open New Action dialog box, enter the name

for an action as watermark and you can also add a shortcut key for this action by change the value in

Function Ke as you want. Next, click Record.

Noe: You can toggle hide/show the Action window by press ALT + F9.

4. Next, add a watermark text on the image. On Tools menu, select Horiontal Tpe Tool (T) and click on

anywhere on the image. Type the text as a watermark, usually something like ? Yourcompany and set fontfamily, size and style as you want. On this example, I use the text ? Linglom.com with font family Tahoma,

bold and size is 36 pixel as a sample. Then, click on Commit an current edits to apply changes.

Noe: The copyright symbol (?) can be typed by hold ALT + 0169. Then, release the ALT button.

5. Next, set align of the watermark text to bottom right of the image. On Tools menu, select Move Tool and

select both layers, watermark text and image layer, by click on the first layer, hold CTRL and click on the

second layer. Then, click on Align bottom edges and Align right edges icons. The watermark text will move

to bottom right of image.

6. You notice that the watermark text is too attached to edges of image. It would be nicer if you keep a little

distance from edges. So use Zoom Tool to zoom to the watermark text, and select Move Tool. Click on the

watermark layer and move it away from the edges as you want.

Noe: To move the watermark text layer more precisely, you can use the directional arrow keys.


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7. Make watermark text more transparent by set opacity on the watermark text layer. Select the watermark

text layer and set opacity to 30%. You can adjust this value as you want.

8. (Optional) You can set blending option of the watermark text to make it looks better. Double-click on the

watermark text layer. This will open Layer Style dialog box, check Stroke, set size to 1 pixel and change

color to whilte (#FFFFFF). Click OK.

9. On Action window, click Stop plaing/recording icon to stop record this action.

Stop Record Action

10. Now you have finished create an action that add a watermark on image. Lets try to run the watermark

action on another image. Open a new image, select on watermark action and click on Pla button. If there

isnt any error, you should see the watermark at the bottom right of this image.

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1. Taha Hussain Says:January 9th, 2012 at 5:22 am

Thanks you very much for this informative post.

You Point number 10 could be also written as:10. Press Alt+F9, then F10.

This will do the same as you mentioned above.

Moreover, I thought I would have to do it again and again each time I open Photoshop, but I was wrong. It

saved the action.

Thanks a lot.

Bookmarked your website.

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