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1. #USE GIMP TO WATERMARK BATCH WATERMARK PHOTOS HOW TO#
2. #USE GIMP TO WATERMARK BATCH WATERMARK PHOTOS FULL#
3. #USE GIMP TO WATERMARK BATCH WATERMARK PHOTOS PC#

Next, duplicate the Bevel and Emboss Layer Style and apply it to your new type layer. You could also optionally type in “copyright, your name/business” and the year if you wanted, but this is simply how I chose to do it.

#USE GIMP TO WATERMARK BATCH WATERMARK PHOTOS FULL#

Type your full name or business name and position it next to the copyright symbol using the Move Tool at the top of the toolbar. Click on the Type Tool in the toolbar, making sure your Text color swatch in the options bar is close to the foreground color you chose for the copyright symbol. You don’t have to change anything - just click ok to apply a beveled effect to your copyright symbol. Choose Bevel and Emboss from the pop-up menu. Once it’s placed, click the Add a Layer Style icon at the layers panel bottom. Then, press and hold the shift key and take your custom shape tool and click and drag just above the center of your photo to add as large of a copyright symbol as you would like. Click on the foreground color swatch at the bottom of the toolbar and choose a light gray with the color picker. Now make a new blank layer: click on the create new layer icon at the bottom of the layers panel. When the menu opens, choose the copyright symbol (see screen shot)Ĥ. Go to the Options Bar and click on the Fill Pixels icon (3rd from left), then click on the thumbnails to the right of the word “ shape” to allow you to choose a shape. It looks a bit like an amoeba or a very stubby starfish. Get the Custom Shape Tool from the Toolbox panel or click Shift-U which will make it active.

#USE GIMP TO WATERMARK BATCH WATERMARK PHOTOS PC#

Make a layer via copy (see screen shot) or simply press Ctrl-J (for PC users) Command-J (for Mac users.)Ģ. Let’s start by opening a photo you’d like to put a copyright watermark on. In fact, you can even add this watermark to an entire folder of your photos using a batch version of the action.ġ.

#USE GIMP TO WATERMARK BATCH WATERMARK PHOTOS HOW TO#

This is a bit of a long tutorial, but at the end, I will be teaching you how to turn it into a Photoshop Action, so you can simply press one of the Function keys along the top of the keyboard in the future to add a custom watermark to your photos. (Ultimately, even a watermark could be photoshopped out though.) There are ways to protect your photos though, even if you don’t have a big website with the protections I mentioned, one of which, adding a copyright watermark, can be helpful in deterring all but the most determined thieves. The company I use to host my portfolio site, Smugmug, and a few others, have the options of right-click protection and you can watermark your photos directly from within Smugmug so that although one can’t right-click and steal your photo from the site, they could take a screenshot and steal it that way, but there will still be a watermark across the photo.Įven if you aren’t like me and trying to make some money as a photographer by selling your photos, having your photo stolen is no fun. These days, no one seems to think twice about right-clicking on one of our photos and downloading them for their own purposes, whether as “pretty wallpaper” for their computer or the heading of their latest blog post.