How to do this in Photoshop?

Phaser · 10 Mar 2007 at 16:48

Hi guys.

Bit of a n00b with PS, i'm trying to add a simple watermark to my images.

Here is what i'd like the finished result to look like:

I have the "www.YorkshireJunkies.co.uk" saved as a jpeg, however it needs resizing and the blending options changed etc to get the outline and fill right.

What I have been doing, is the following:

Loading up all my images into PS.
Loading up the Yorkshire Junkies logo.
Resizing and cropping the Yorkshire Junkies logo.
Recording a new action in PS, resizing to 640x480.
Adding a new layer, adding a rectangle and adjusting the opacity.
Adding a new layer, adding the Yorkshire Junkies logo and adjusting the blending options.
Adding a 15px border and saving for web.
Saving the action.

However, when I press "play" on the action, it says the cropped area of the Yorkshire Junkies logo is empty.

No doubt i'm going about this the wrong way - how would I do it properly?

Cheers for any help!

V4NT0M · 10 Mar 2007 at 17:32

If all these images are going online there is a really easy way to do all of this for you on the fly, i'm not a photoshop user, but I used to do the same until I had to watermark user uploaded images.

I use a php program on my website which applies watermarks on the fly, there are also ones which will resize the images for you too, so all you have to do is upload your images to for example: /images/ then use the script /images/program.php?img=image.jpg etc... I do this on my website with a mod rewrite too so visitors never see there is a script.

for example;

The real image (on the server);
http://nupo.org/images/monitors_01.jpg

The altered image (which doesnt actually exist);
http://nupo.org/sm/monitors_01.jpg

Always use this program now to do watermarking. I will link it when I get home and can tell you what its called.

Unless you really want to do it in PS

Phaser · 11 Mar 2007 at 09:00

Cheers, but that means i'd have to get the watermark perfect before adding it?

Anyone else know how to do this in PS?

V4NT0M · 11 Mar 2007 at 09:30

This is the prog I have used in the past, i dont use it at the moment becaus all i need is a watermark and not any resizing or bordering. The only problem I found was that it can slow down the display of images.

http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/demo/demo/phpThumb.demo.demo.php

all you should have to do with the watermark is export the layers as a transparent PNG then position is right using the php prog.