Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

CREATE A CUSTOM WATERMARK to protect your images
If you upload your proofs to a website for client
approval, or if you sell your digital artwork online,
you want people to see the images but not to use the
files without your permission. You can add a custom
watermark with a transparent look to any image to
protect it and still keep the image visible.
A custom watermark can be as simple as your name
and the copyright symbol, and you can use the
copyright symbol as a text character or as a separate
shape as in this task. After writing, using a Wacom
stylus, or typing your name on a type layer and
adding a large copyright symbol as a shape layer, you
can add any kind of bevel or embossed style to your
personalized watermark. You can even copy the two
layers to another photo to apply the same custom
watermark. To give a transparent look to each layer,
you can lower the Fill opacity, which affects only the
fill pixels, leaving the beveled areas appearing like a
glass overlay. You can use this same technique for
other text or shape layers on any image to give them
a transparent look.
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Note: This task uses the
Typography workspace, so the
Character panel is open. You can
open the panel from any workspace
by clicking Window ➪ Character.
1 With the image open, click the
Type tool.
2 Select the font family, size, and
text options in the Character
panel or Options bar.
3 Click in the image and type the
text for your watermark, such as
your name or company name.
4 Click the Commit button.
5 Double-click the type layer to
open the Layer Style dialog box.
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The Layer Style dialog box
appears.
6 Click Bevel & Emboss
( changes to ).
7 Click the Style drop-down menu
and select Inner Bevel.
8 Click the Technique drop-down
menu and select Smooth.
9 Click and drag the Size slider to
increase the effect.
0 Click OK.
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