This question came from Michelle:
Q. “Can you make a layer for a watermark in PSE so you don’t have to do the text box everytime on every picture? And if so how?”
Hi Michelle thanks for a great question! Yes, of course you can and it’s super easy!
1.} Open PSE and file > new using the following:
2.} You end up with an image that looks like this:
3.} Then, layer > new fill layer > solid colour. Make a fill layer in any colour just to give you something to build your watermark against. You’ll be erasing it later.
4.} Now, you can either open a file with your logo or you can use the text tool to type your name. Whatever you want your watermark to be. For me, I’m opening my logo. Then I will drag it onto the new image. My logo is in colour, but the new image we created was done in grayscale so when I drag it onto the image, it turns B&W:
5.} Now go to filter > styles > emboss and play with the options in there until you like the look then slide the opacity of the layer down:
6.} Now delete the fill layer and you’re left with this:
7.} Now save your image as a .psd. It’s now an image you can open and drag onto your images to watermark them! You can change the opacity when you apply the watermark to images depending on how strong or weak you’d like it to be. You can rotate it, stretch it bigger or smaller, duplicate it allover the image – whatever!
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