Watermarking a Psd File for a Psdtuts Tutorial – Screencast
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Watermarking a Psd File for a Psdtuts Tutorial – Screencast

on Apr 9th 2010 with 31 comments
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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Grant Friedman is a veteran blogger, social media addict, and design enthusiast. Grant has been blogging about the design industry since 2008 and is currently the editor of Psdtuts. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about Psdtuts, feel free to direct them to Grant's Twitter account.  

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  • http://lenatailor.designerteam.info Lena Tailor

    Nice Tut.. New trick leaned today.. Thankss

    • http://www.sz-media.org snaKeSz

      Nice?

      This tutorial is about: write text and merge it to the image o0

      Or am i wrong?!?!?

      • http://studioonyx.net Jason

        Watermarking a Psd File for a Psdtuts Tutorial – just like the title of the post says.

  • http://ds.laroouse.com esranull

    very very nice tut thankss lot

  • http://www.infictus.com Paul

    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.

  • http://www.teelac.com everytuesday

    what a great idea for a tut! thanks a bunch!

  • http://photoshopstar.blogsky.com parsa

    tnx.very nice

  • http://slayyou2.deviantart.com/ slayyou

    huh ?

  • http://sean-pollock.com Sean Pollock

    Pretty basic stuff..

  • http://www.feliperibeiro.net Felipe Ribeiro

    Is that a joke?

    • Fab

      YES… loro hanno anche cancellato il mio commento!

      repeat! for me useless!!!

    • Fab

      YES for me! it’s useless… they have also deleted my comment…

  • http://pilatowicz.pl Andrew

    Why not to create a patter with watermark? using this method its waste of time.

    • ExtremRaym

      That’s a the idea i had ^^

  • http://www.gregbabula.com Greg Babula

    Pretty basic like the others said, but still useful for others none-the-less

  • http://wonggrafis.com wonggrafis

    nice share, like this one :)

  • http://hv-designs.co.uk hvdesigns

    wouldn’t it be quicker just to create the text as a pattern then fill it over your image?????

    • Tanya

      Awaiting for your Digital CV Part II, hope it’ll come soon, thank you in advance!

      • http://hv-designs.co.uk hvdesigns

        it’l be up soon its 80% written up. just been abit busy.

  • http://www.zoltanhosszu.com/ zoltanhosszu

    I’m sorry, are you serious about this? Shouldn’t this be a premium tutorial?

  • Sahan

    Why we can’t use a pattern fill layer ?

    • http://www.etaproducto.com Peter

      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?

  • Seb

    Why is audio so quiet? Can’t you speak louder or switch recording volume up?

  • Tanya

    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…

  • http://www.jauhari.net/ Jauhari

    Super Basic Tutorial with Video I ever seen :)

  • Whatthe

    wtf? joke?

  • http://www.pixelzeesh.com zeesh

    my 5 years old brother can do this:P

  • des-

    pattern fill is much easier and useful

  • Noora

    Great tutorial, but is there any tutorial that show how do you create that nice background?

  • http://www.brettburky.com Brett Burky

    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.

  • http://www.facebook.com/manu.escamilla Manuel Escamilla

    we can also create a pattern