Quickly and easily watermark photos and designs
Dino Angelov writes about all things design, but has a particular focus on Photoshop and related software and technologies.
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Hello dear visitor and Welcome to the "Quickly and easily Watermark your Photos and Designs" Tutorial.
In this tutorial we'll reveal the easiest way of how to emblem/protect your photos and designs by applying a watermark pattern all across them, and all that will be an
effort of a few minutes and nothing more.
So let's get started.
For the start, let's design the pattern we want tp apply upon the photo/design.
Create New Document, roughly 650 by 450px. Once you've gon through this tutorial, you can go back and choose a different size or designs, if you find it suits your
needs better.
Add your logo/design or text on a New Layer, and hide the default layer - Background or simply delete it.
So, we have our transparent document prepated.
Now, since we have the background prepated, we need to apply the logo or any other element which will be the primary object of the watermark pattern.
In this case we'll be using our own logo.
Now, after having our logo chosen, we'll rotate it for like 30 degrees CCW.
Since, we've got our logo prepared too, it's time to define it as a pattern.
Alright, now copy-paste the logo on the transparent background we created a few seconds ago.
(in here case it's kinda hardly to notice the logo because it's colored in the default white color).
Now, because we had scaled our logo down to 60% we'll canvas the image size from 650-450px down to 173-107px (as the current rotated/scaled logo is).
Since, we're done with that too go to: Edit > Define Pattern.
So, we're kinda done with the pattern build and it's to apply it upon the photo or the design.
Open the image you want to apply it. In this case for the sake of this tutorial, we'll be using this nice Limes Stock Photo we found.
Now, create New Layer and rename it to - "Watermark Pattern".
After that go to Edit > Fill (or simply press the SHIFT+F5 shortkey).
Use these settings here:

Gee, we have our pattern on :)
Congratulations!

