Comments on: Positioning a copyright notice bottom-right in Photoshop

By: L. DuLac

L. DuLac — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:47:40 +0000

If you use PS you should use PS Scripts.
These are extremely powerfull tools and you will find plenty of these free that will do that for you automatically. If you want to go one step further you can assing an action (and a corresponding keyboard shortcut) to the script.

That’s what I use and would definitelly recommend. Please google for Photoshop Scrip Add Signature.

The signature (or copyright notice for the sake of this exercise) will be an image that will be added onto a new layer.

I do not have the script I use here with me but if you are interested please let me know and I’ll send you a copy.

By: Elizabeth Richardson

Elizabeth Richardson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:45:48 +0000

I like to use the method Kristina suggested above. Create a brush with your signature/watermark in Photoshop and just pull it out when you need it.

Even quicker than creating an action.

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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:52:52 +0000

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By: Cemal Ekin

Cemal Ekin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:21:48 +0000

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Cemal

By: J Paul

J Paul — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:59:42 +0000

Cemal,

Outstanding work. May God treat you well!

-JP

By: Cemal Ekin

Cemal Ekin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:03:15 +0000

As I understand it, you have a text layer and you would like to position it on the lower right corner of the image offset by a given number of pixels from the bottom and the right edges. You can even have the standard text in a separate file if you like. This process can be automated via an action too. Here it goes:
1. Make sure you have a background layer, if you don’t, create a blank layer anywhere then from the menu “Layers/New Background from this layer” options create a background layer.
2. Put your text anywhere on the stack, even bring it from a separate file and drag it on to your image that you want to stamp
3. Select the background and the text layers only (click on the BG layer to target it, then Ctrl-click on the gray area of the text layer)
4. Go to “Layer/Align/Bottom” and then “Layer/Align/Right”; now the text is touching the edges
5. Target the text layer only by clicking on the layer icon
6. Make sure that you have the “Pick tool” (press V to do that)
7. Using the up and left arrow keys move the text a set number of pixels from the bottom and the right edges

All the steps allow easy action creation, if you are careful, you can SLOWLY repeat the steps after you explore it once or twice while the action recording is turned on.

Enjoy,

Cemal

By: g

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:56:08 +0000

The brush/stamp method seems to give me the most flexibility.

By: ECDPhoto

ECDPhoto — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:37:02 +0000

I use Painshop Pro 8 and it writes it’s scripts in python. Sadly I’m not familiar with Photoshop’s scripting process but you should be able to tweak your scripts with in the scripts code to better modify yours.

I resize all of my images to the same width and height anyway so I created 2 Â© layers. One for landscape and the other for portrait. Both with my Â© info. I then created a batch script for each. Resize;Border;Apply layer;Merge;Save.

I don’t know if that even helps you but it may get some gears moving.

Great Site BTW! del.ico.us (*click)

By: oldewolfe

oldewolfe — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:36:55 +0000

I keep a word doc with signatures that I use. I will copy the one I want to use to the clipboard. Then when I am ready to add it I use the text tool and paste it in. I can then position it, size it and format it. Extra step but gives me full control.

By: Vincent 'aetherea' Wong

Vincent 'aetherea' Wong — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:49:06 +0000

http://www.irfanview.com/ is a very nice and small program that’ll let you do batch watermarking of your work.

It’s less than a meg and best of all — free.

I mainly use it to resize my digital photos, beats doing it manually in photoshop, beats doing it via the actions in photoshop (they are slow), and beats doing it in Macromedia Fireworks (which – incidentally – discards the EXIF information)

Hope that helps,

– Vince.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:33:31 +0000

PC-only solutions are rarely useful for me.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:06:11 +0000

I reckon you should give BreezeBrowser a go (www.breezesys.com).

Of course, it’s another step – but I use both, and have managed to work out an effective digital workflow.

HTH!

cheers,

Matt

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 06:38:16 +0000

I have it scripted as part of my output action. Thanks though.

By: Darrick

Darrick — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:09:06 +0000

I use the Imagemagick tools to add my comments/watermarks to my photography. Sure it would be an extra step, but you can easily have a directory full of images and use the –gravity southeast to put it in the lower right corner. My script is sort of a hack, but if you want it shoot me an email.

-D

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 17 May 2004 21:58:33 +0000

I’m not sure if this will help- I am an amature at photshop. But I created a brush with my information and then used the airbrush to leave my mark…

HTH