July 03, 2010

Protect Your Photo with Watermark Using Lightroom

Photo Watermark

Protect your photo using Watermark. You don’t know how to make Watermark and you don’t know what software to make Watermark. You know, most graphics software have Watermark features, such as Photoshop with Digimarc. This time, I will teach you to make Watermark with Lightroom. We have 2 options, using Text and Images.

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GETTING STARTED

Tutorial review:

Minimum Program: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 (In this tutorial using Lightroom 3)

Difficulty: Medium

Duration: 15 Minutes

Resources:

None

1. Open your Lightroom.

2. In the Library panel, choose your image to give the watermarks.

3. If you already choose your images, click Edit > Edit Watermarks

Edit Watermarks

4. In this session, we can make Watermarks with 2 options, using Text and Images. For first, we using Text as watermark. Click Text Options dropdown, choose the Font, Style. For Align, you can choose Left, Center and Right, and don’t forget to give your text a color. For Shadow settings, see the pictures below.

Text Options

5. Click Watermark Effects dropdown, set the Opacity, Size, Inset. For Anchor using for place your Watermarks, center, Lower and Upper. It’s your decide, in this tutorial, you can see my settings below.

Watermark Effects

And write your text in the box.

Text box

When finish all, click Save and give your watermarks name, and click Create.

Preset Name

Should be like this…

Text Watermark

6. When finished make Watermarks using Text, next we make Watermarks using Images. For Images Watermarks, Lightroom support several images type, such as Jpeg, PNG, GIF and BMP. Click Watermark Style to Graphics, and choose your Images Watermark.

Image Options

7. Then, click Watermark Effects dropdown. You can set the Opacity, Size, Inset and Anchor.

Watermark Effects

8. When finish, give your Watermarks name.

Preset Name

And like this…

Image Watermark

Note: To find your Watermark file, in the same window (Watermark Editor) click Custom dropdown and open your Watermark file.

Custom watermark

Now, you can protect your photo.

Happy Lighie…

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