Make a Watermark

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Making Watermarks
By Latin

This is a Tutorial on how to create a Watermark Text on an image you\'ve created. This method is to use when you want to mark your work so no one else can take credit for it or if you want to discreetly put your website url on the image.


1. Open the image you\'ll be watermarking.

2. On your right you have your materials, color etc... you will only need 2 colors
black and white. Black for the outline and white for the fill of your text. The top
box is your outline color so it should be black and the box underneath would be
white.
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/ColorsBox.gif[/img]

3. Click the text button on your left hand side
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/TextButton.gif[/img]

At the top make your stroke Width value 1.0 - this is for the outline part of
your TEXT.
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/StrokeWidth.gif[/img]

4. Click on the image you are working on and pick the Font you wish to use.
After you pick your font and type in your text, click ok.
Move the text where you would like to have the watermark Text.
I picked Arial Black for an example:
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/placeText.gif[/img]

Now go to your right where the layer dialog is and right click on the vector layer;
click convert to raster layer; it should now be a raster layer.

5. Go to Effects at the top of Paint Shop Pro then to Texture Effects and click
Emboss. Your text should look like this:
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/Embossed.gif[/img]

Now that you have embossed your text, go to your text layer, right
click and click properties.

6. Go to Blend mode in the general tab and make the blend mode Soft Light
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/Properties.gif[/img]

Click OK and your end Product should look something like this:
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/WaterMarkKG.gif[/img]