Watermarking is an essential and must know thing in this age of plagiarism. As many of the internet surfers and bloggers use the work of professionals authoritatively. The images with a watermark look pretty much ugly, but it's the least we can do to prevent miss use of our precious work
Creating a Pattern in photoshop:
Step 1: Create a New Document
Open photoshop and create a new document by going to File > New ( or press ctrl + n) , Make it any size you like (i.e 500x500) and select the background as "transparent"
Step 2: Create your pattern text
Now select the type tool in the left pain (or press T) and write what you want your pattern text to be. for the purpose of this tutorial i wrote "Fucnki tips and tutorials" , Make it as large as you want your final watermark image to be.
Step 3: Rotate your text
Now that we have our watermark text let's rotate it at an an angle of 45 Degree, Press ctrl + T and drag the corners of the text until tilted by 45 degree
now your image should be like this
I have had it colored black you can change it to whatever color you like (i.e white would be nice)
Step 4: Cropping your image
Now crop the image but keep in mind not crop too much as it will be squeezed when adding watermark to smaller images
Step 5: Defining as pattern
Now go to Edit > Define Pattern give the pattern a name and hit ok
Step 5: add watermark using photoshop
Now select the image you want to watermark and click on layer styles below the layers panel , select Pattern overlay and select the newly created pattern , adjust the scale to your needs and hit enter
Behold You have watermarked your image! How's that ? Don't forget to share the article and join me on Goggle+ and Facebook
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