Adding Copyright in Photoshop

I have done a search on this but to no avail, does anyone know an easy way to add for eg. ©jillbloggs when in Photoshop in an efficient way?

I have worked out how to do it for every image on a new layer so I can remove when required, insert text block etc., but tis time consuming and I would like to find out how I can do this quicker ie. save a typical line of text and import it into my .tiff files when required.

Or do I have to buy a special software like "Watermark" to do it?

iWatermark is the way to go, and once done in that, the watermark stays there. I once used something else and then found that images posted on the web could be dragged and dropped and the watermark no longer was there. So now I use iWatermark always for any image placed on my web site. This is of course on a Mac. I would also like to know how to do it in Ubuntu Linux, as I now have standardised on Mac most of the time and Linux the rest.

Anybody know of an equally good way as iWatermark on OS X, to watermark images in Linux?

iWatermark is also a Windows applicaton I see:-

http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iwatermark/

Hi Lilly,

design a new copyright graphic on a transparent layer (you can always use an extra temporary coloured layer whilst in the design process, to make it easier to see), and save as a .gif file (the only format that will recognise true transparency AFAIK). When you want to add it to an image, just Open as Layer, the "copyright.gif" file and move it to where you want.

You can design several, depending on the colour of your main image..

copyrightwhite.gif
copyrightblack.gif
copyrightblue.gif
copyrightred.gif

..etc..

and use the one you want each time, with a couple of mouse clicks..

Job done.

HTH

Cheers

Liam

It's mentioned on www.thelightsrightstudio.com, specifically:
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/tutorials/WatermarkingYourImagesForTheWeb.pd...

You can also scan your signature and turn it into a custom brush
Hope that helps!
Matt

Merci beaucoup! Will try out that method Liam, Matt when I finish being the judge this morning
Thank u to SPB too, another option when I get my web up and going..

No problem,

for web images, where you just want to add a bit of simple security, but not necessarily need to copyright every image, just add a transparent image (again a .gif) over the top of the one on display..

Then when someone right clicks to save it, they get an 800x600 transparency..

..by no means foolproof, it's relatively simple to get around if you know; but it'll stop people with only a basic knowledge from cruising the web and nicking random images.

Cheers

Liam

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ImageMagick is brilliant for these types of tasks. It can replace a whole load of discrete packages and it is ideal for bulk processing. I use it extensively. It's free and open source.

To add a watermark to an image - you first need a small image which is your watermark. Something in simple black and white.

Then you type:

30% sets the density of the watermark. The gravity value controls where on the main image the water mark is placed.

It is also easy to put this in a loop to do all the images in a directory:

In this example, a subdirectory, 'watermarked' will contain the watermarked images from the original directory.

The above loop is suitable for Linux but the Windows version is very similar.

www.imagemagick.org

Heh Lenscape,

Thanks a lot for the code I will try this on my Ubuntu laptop. If it does as you say especially batch process a folder, I will definitely use Linux to prepare some of my images in future.

This works on Ubuntu to my satisfaction:-

$ mogrify -resize 640x480! -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf -pointsize 14 -verbose -draw "gravity south fill black text 0,33 'Copyright Stephen Butterworth - 2007' fill white text 1,32 'Copyright Stephen Butterworth - 2007' " /Desktop/austin-7-1932.jpg

How does one limit filesize to 100kb using mogrify?

iwatermark is really good, intuitive and batch processes very quickly cost $20 and is available for Windows from

http://www.scriptsoftware.com/store/index.php

Ken

I actually got around to printing off that tutorial, the simplist way of achieving a COPYRIGHT layer, it works well now that I combine it as a Photoshop ACTION, it's a a breeze.
I am interested to know Matt how on your website you have a banner running through your name and when you get 5 can you give a brief rundown or point me right direction for "You can also scan your signature and turn it into a custom brush".

Thanks again for all help

This is my effort, is it OK?





PS - what an amazing site this is Matt, thanks...
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/home.html

Hi Lilly,
First off: http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/brush/cbrush7.htm
(Typed "Photoshop signature custom brush" into Google )
That should get you on the right track.

On my website the copyright overlays are provided automatically by Photium

Your effort looks just fine! And TLR is a great site... no mistake.

Glad to have helped!
Matt