Watermarking a Psd File for a Psdtuts Tutorial – Screencast
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Video Length: 7:23 min
As you know, on Psdtuts we provide Psd files for all the tutorials you see on our website to our Premium Members. This is one of the perks of Premium Membership and it is something that we do to help our members explore our tutorials in more detail. One question that we receive a lot from our authors however is how to watermark their Psd files.
Before we answer that it is important to first discuss why we do it. As you know, many of the tutorials on this website include stock photography. This photography is usually provided by photographers or stock photography websites. Some photos you see in our tutorials are free photos, others are not. Either way, we have to respect the rights of the photographers that allow us to use their work and we cannot re-distribute them; even if it is in a Psd file.
That is where watermarking comes in. Watermarking involves typing text on top of a Psd layer and merging the text with that layer while preserving any effects or layer styles that were applied to the original layer. In today’s screencast I will demonstrate how to watermark a Psd file to be included in a Psdtuts tutorial.
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Nice Tut.. New trick leaned today.. Thankss
Nice?
This tutorial is about: write text and merge it to the image o0
Or am i wrong?!?!?
Watermarking a Psd File for a Psdtuts Tutorial – just like the title of the post says.
very very nice tut thankss lot
Nice tut indeed. I was wondering what the best way would be to do this. It might be a while before I submit anything to PSDtuts though.
what a great idea for a tut! thanks a bunch!
tnx.very nice
huh ?
Pretty basic stuff..
Is that a joke?
YES… loro hanno anche cancellato il mio commento!
repeat! for me useless!!!
YES for me! it’s useless… they have also deleted my comment…
Why not to create a patter with watermark? using this method its waste of time.
That’s a the idea i had ^^
Pretty basic like the others said, but still useful for others none-the-less
nice share, like this one
wouldn’t it be quicker just to create the text as a pattern then fill it over your image?????
Awaiting for your Digital CV Part II, hope it’ll come soon, thank you in advance!
it’l be up soon its 80% written up. just been abit busy.
I’m sorry, are you serious about this? Shouldn’t this be a premium tutorial?
Why we can’t use a pattern fill layer ?
I agree, this would be useful if you were setting up an action maybe, using patterns, or automator or something… Not production level stuff really?
Why is audio so quiet? Can’t you speak louder or switch recording volume up?
Anyway, Russians will steal everything, with or without watermark, no method will help to prevent a file to be stolen by Russians. Half of Envato stuff is on their “design” portals, just don’t be lazy to download… Sad…
Super Basic Tutorial with Video I ever seen
wtf? joke?
my 5 years old brother can do this:P
pattern fill is much easier and useful
Great tutorial, but is there any tutorial that show how do you create that nice background?
People talking so much crap, jeez.
I think the idea was to get something quick and dirty to be able to put online. I for one learned something new. Mostly the “hold alt” and it will duplicate that layer.
So for me it was a good tutorial. Learn something new each day and keep going. BTW – thanks for providing this tutorial. I for one enjoyed it.