Watermark in PS Elements

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Hi - I have been following a tutorial to make a watermark in PSE, so far I have managed to save my watermark in the brush palette and all is well. But, when I actually select the brush to watermark my photo it wont apply! It looks like white ants on my logo rather than text! I have been trying everything to sort this but cant work out what I am doing wrong. Could some kind lovely person put me out of my misery....please?? :(
 
Hi

The portraits on your blog are very good!

I don't get the bit about the brush palette. I have a watermark saved (text), as a pse project in with my photo folders. I then open this with the photo I'm working on, select the move tool and plonk the watermark on to the photo.
 
Hi Michael - thanks for your reply. I will try your method, do you make the watermark in PSE then save it? Sorry but Im not so familiar with using lots of different functions in PS.
Thanks for your comments re my blog. I feel I need to start watermarking everything now that the blog is live.
 
Yes, make the watermark in Elements...it's just text isn't it? (I've not done one with a logo or graphics).
When you're happy with it, save it. I think it saves as a PSD file.
Just open it again when you want it, and drag it on to your photo.
With the move tool you can move it around on your photo until you're happy with the position.
That's what I do anyway....maybe there are different ways of doing the same thing.
 
If you just want to make a brush that'll stamp your text then it should be easy.

1) Start a new blank file with a transparent background

2) Write your text (make it big)

3 Select your TEXT ( I use the magic wand tool and select the background, making sure you get the middle of letters like O and R. then invert selection)

4) Define brush from selection.



That should be it, you should be able to use the brush to stamp your text in any colour and resize the brush to any size.

If you create a new layer to use the brush on you can do all the normal things like emboss/drop shadow/stroke and that will only effect the brush text.

stamp.jpg
 
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