How to create a watermarking action in Photoshop

written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com

I have been asked quite a few times recently “is it possible to make a watermarking action?”. Yes! It can be done, and today I will show you how! (unfortunately, actions can only be created in full versions of Photoshop and not Elements)

The first thing you’ll need to do is to create a PNG file from your logo brush. (I always watermark my images that have already been resized for show on the web) So I’ll make my action based off of that resized image.

I am going to start with an image open (you’ll need an image open because PS won’t know what to do without one). You’re going to click on that little menu at the top right corner of your actions palette.

watermark 0

Then you will select “new set”. It will give you the option to name your set. I named mine “watermarking”.

watermark 1

watermark 2

Next, you will click on that little menu button again, and click on “new action” and name your action. I named mine “landscape watermark”.

watermark 3

watermark 4

After you name your action and hit “record” PS will start recording your steps (indicated by the little red “record” button)

watermark 5

Now, click on file>place and locate your PNG logo file and select it and hit enter. You can now move it around and put the logo wherever you like on your image and hit enter again. Now flatten your image.

watermark 6

You can end your action here by pressing the “stop” button (the little square button next to the “record” button), OR before you do that, you can take it another step further, and go through the steps of saving your newly watermarked file. I do this by creating a folder that I call “watermarked” on my desktop. However, an important thing you should know when doing the save steps; DO NOT change the file name, otherwise PS will do that every time you run that action, and you will end up overwriting the same file over and over. Once you are done with the save steps, click on the “stop” button and voila! You now have an action that will watermark AND save your images to a temporary folder for you!

BGK_3306

If you have any questions, I am more than happy to help. Feel free to comment here or send me an email at beckie [at] beckiegkengle [dot] com.

If you enjoyed reading my post and would like to follow more of my journey through life in photography, feel free to visit my blog or follow my Facebook page!

 

 

 

 

About Beckie

I'm Beckie, a fun, think-outside-the-box mama to 2 miracle children.
I love all things photography, and being able to share in this art with others!
www.beckiegkengle.com

Comments

  1. Thanks for the info…although, it’s a little disappointing that the last two posts on the “elements” blog have been about great things you can do with Photoshop. I’ve always loved this blog because it focuses on the great things Elements CAN do and specifics on how to do them.

    • Sandi,
      I can understand the frustration. We have a lot of Photoshop readers, so we try to share things to help them learn their program too. When I first started the blog, it was just for PSE, then I started talking about photography too, then Photoshop CS, so it is not exclusively for PSE users.

      Now, in regards to what Beckie shared, that is an action I can make and offer for free because the action will play in PSE just the same as it does on Photoshop CS. I hope to have that for the blog soon.

      Amanda

  2. Enjoué,magique tourner sur crochet sur volonté top eleven hack token money wizard101 crown generator 2013 no
    survey. Voyage considérant Dragon top eleven hack token money imvu generator 2013 no survey.

  3. Use only those you trust, or you might be in for a shock when you come across your account
    with content you didn’t put yourself. For example, dont announce to the planet via how to compromise facebook account password that you will
    be now leaving to house to get a night of dinner, movies,
    how to hack zynga account password dancing, as people will then know you will
    end up away from your house with the next 5 hours.
    Let us consider the phrases of that silver tongued orator, the famous
    political Francis Skank ‘Taking a walk over hot coals will undoubtedly hurt your feet.

  4. Similarly, many ethical hacking courses teach students
    to create “phishing” scams. With the primary aim of demonstrating myy substantial intellect I will now demonstrate
    the complexity of the maby faceted issue that is. When your system finishes booting, open thee Local Users and Groups Window by clicking
    Start button and inputting lusrmgr.

  5. Very nice blog post. I absolutely love this website.

    Keep it up!

  6. Houuseholds that don’t have Wi-Fi enabled satellite boxes can order an On Demand connector to access the service.
    We need to kee analysing our every move and monitor their effects.

    Make sure you don’t sign up for applications that may have a questionable background.

  7. It’s very simple to find out any matter on net as compared to textbooks,
    as I found this paragraph at this web page.

  8. My coder is trying to convince me to move to .net from PHP.
    I have always disliked the idea because of the costs.
    But he’s tryiong none the less. I’ve been using WordPress on various
    websites for about a year annd am worried about switching
    to another platform. I hage heard good things about blogengine.net.
    Is there a way I can transfer all my wordpress posts into it?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Trackbacks

  1. […] did a wonderful post last week, showing Photoshop CS users how to make their own watermarking action. Photoshop Elements users cannot MAKE actions, but they can USE actions, so today I’m sharing […]

Speak Your Mind

*