How to Add a Watermark in PaintShop Pro

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In this tutorial, I'll demonstrate how to
watermark a photo or a batch of photos
in PaintShop Pro 2018. A watermark is
simply a small image or piece of text
that you overlay onto a photo. This image
usually has a transparent background, so
that it will be subtle on the photo.
Adding a watermark is a great way to
advertise or claim ownership of your
work, and can also help prevent piracy. In
this video, I'll cover creating a
watermark image, adding the watermark
image to a photo, and adding a watermark
to multiple images at once. The first
step in water marking is to create the
actual watermark image. In this example, I
want to create a logo comprised of an
icon and text. In PaintShop Pro, I have
my Edit workspace open, and I have an
icon image already prepared. This icon is
comprised of black shapes against a
transparent background, which means it's
a PNG file. Later in this tutorial, I'll
show how to save an image as a PNG and
make the background transparent, but I
want my final watermark to appear in
white, which works better than black
against the background of most photos.
The tool I'll use to fix this is Color
Replacer, which is part of the
Lighten/Darken tool flyout. In the Materials
palette, the foreground color should be
white, and for the color I want to change,
I could manually change the background
to black. Or to match the exact color in
the image. I can press Ctrl while
right-clicking on any black area. I can
now paint over the areas to change or
just click the Replace All Pixels icon.
Now, I'm ready to create my watermark
logo, which will be a new image. I'm
choosing File > New, and setting a size of
300 x 300 pixels, and a resolution of
150. The background here will be
transparent.
I'll drag the layer of the icon image
onto the blank one. To resize, I'll
activate the Pick tool, and use the drag
handles.
I can center the icon by choosing
Objects > Align > Center in Canvas. Now for
the logo text. The Text tool is down here,
and I'll set my font and size. I want a
white font color
and 0 stroke width, which means the
letters will have no outlines. To create
the text, I'm clicking on the image and
typing two letters, then double-clicking
to finish. It's a bit hard to see because
it's white text on a transparent
background, but now I can resize and
center. To save this as my watermark
image, I'm choosing File > Save As. To
maintain the transparent background, the
file type should be PNG. I'm assigning a
name and saving. Now I can close both of
these images.
Now, let's see how to apply this
watermark. I'm using File > Open and
browsing to this flower photo. From the
main menu, I'm choosing Image >
Watermarking. There are three options
here. Embed Watermark enables you to add
a Digimarc image. This is a paid
digital watermarking service. Read
Watermark identifies a Digimarc watermark.
The option we want to use here is
Visible Watermark. Click Browse to find
the saved PNG image.
I have Preview on Image checked, so I can
see what the watermark will look like. I
can set it to tile repeatedly, or appear
just once at the center, or appear in one
of the four corners. I'll place the
watermark in the lower right corner, use
the Size slider to make it a bit larger,
adjust the Opacity, and add a small
embossing effect. I can increase the
preview zoom with my scroll wheel and
drag the mouse to pan to the right spot
to check how the watermark looks. After
applying, here's my watermark. If I want
to make changes, I can use Ctrl + Z to undo,
then go back to Image > Watermarking >
Visible Watermark and adjust the
settings. Now, let's see how to apply a
watermark to multiple photos at once.
I have several flower photos saved in
this folder called "Flowers." This
watermark will be a proof marker. I'm
creating a new watermark image at the
same size as before, this time not using
a transparent background. For the sake of
demonstrating how to change a background
to be transparent, I'll make this one
dark blue.
The text has the same properties as
before. White font, no stroke. I'll change
the font to something plainer and the
font color to a medium gray.
Then, I'll click here and type "PROOF."
After double-clicking, I'm increasing the
size and rotating. Now, when I save this
image as a watermark, I need to define
the dark blue background as transparent.
After File > Save As, I'm clicking Options,
then Run Optimizer. In the Optimizer,
I'm opening the Transparency tab and
choosing the option to match color. I'm
making sure that I can see the watermark
image behind the Optimizer window, and
clicking the swatch to define the color
to match. When the cursor is over the
image, it changes to an Eyedropper.
I'm clicking in the dark blue background
to pick up its color. After clicking OK,
the Preview window now shows the
transparent background.
I'm clicking OK to accept these settings
and I'm saving the PNG. Now, we can start
batch watermarking. You could create a
script for this task, but watermarking
and some other common tasks, are already
included as Preset Actions. I'm choosing
File > Batch Process and using the Add
button to select all of the photos in
the "Flowers" folder. Next, I'm choosing
Batch Actions and adding a watermark. The
Visible Watermark action will have the
same settings as before, so I'll click
the Pencil icon to change the settings.
I'll browse to the "PROOF" watermark, set
it to Tile, adjust the size,
and increase the embossing effect.
Watermarking isn't the only action I can
Batch Process. I'll also add a Picture
Frame to all of these photos. I'll edit
this action and choose the frame called
Platinum. There are also lots of other
predefined scripts you could run, such as
Noise Removal, Sharpening, Resizing to
Standard Dimensions, and many more.
If you plan on applying these Batch
Process actions to other sets of photos,
you can save the Batch, then use Load
Batch to call it up again later.
Next, comes Output Settings. First, is the
Destination folder. I could keep them in
the same folder as the original photos,
but instead, I'm going to place them in a
subfolder called "Proofs."
For file name, I'm going to choose Rename
and click Modify to specify the new file
names. First, I need to include Document
Name, which means the original file name
will be included in the new file name.
Clicking Add moves this to the Included
box. I'll keep the original file names as
they are. In addition, I want to add
Custom Text, and this custom text should
say "Proof." I have a hyphen between the
two options, and here's the example
output.
I can also set what happens with naming
conflicts, choose the file format, and add
security features. I can preview each
image, including the new file name, and then
click Start. After the Batch Process is
complete, I can open my Organizer to the
folder where I placed the proofs. I can
drag one into the Edit workspace to see
the new watermark and frame. This brings
us to the end of this tutorial on
watermarking. If you're watching this
video on YouTube, you'll find a link in
the description below that will take you
to our tutorial page on the Discovery
Center. Here you can download a written
copy of this tutorial to follow along
and find many other helpful tutorials
for Corel PaintShop Pro.
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