Now, select the Custom Shape tool again and open the Custom Shape Picker. To define the copyright notice as a custom shape, choose Edit>Define Custom Shape. (Note: If your converted type doesn’t look clean, that’s just the path around the vector mask that you’re seeing.) If you’re working from a design that’s already in vector form, make the path or shape layer active and proceed to the next step. If you need to change the wording, you’ll have to back up a step. The type is now a shape layer (which is really just a fill layer with a vector mask creating the shape), and this means that you can no longer edit the text with the Type tool.
)įrom the main menu, choose Layer>Type>Convert to Shape. (Note: For a copyright symbol, press Option-G, and for a bullet, press Option-8. When you’re finished, press Enter to exit the text-editing mode. Click in the file to create a new type layer and enter the text for the notice. Select the Type tool (T) and choose a typeface that you want to use for your copyright notice (I used Univers bold). Here, we’ll create a custom shape from a copyright notice, but you can apply the same technique to any vector design. Click the Done button to exit the Preset Manager. This is just the quickest way to start out with a new, empty library. Don’t worry the actual default shapes are safe in their own saved library. Click the Delete button to clear them from the current view of the Custom Shape Picker. Click on the first shape and then Shift-click on the last shape to select all of them. The shapes that are displayed are part of the default library. In the dialog that appears, click OK (not Append).įrom the same Custom Shape Picker flyout menu, choose Preset Manager. Click the flyout menu button in the upper right of the Picker and choose Reset Shapes. The first step is to make the Custom Shape tool active and then open the Custom Shape Picker in the Options Bar. Setting Up a New Custom Shape Collectionīefore we explore creating new custom shapes, we’ll create a new, empty library to place them into so they can exist separately from any of the other shape libraries. Finally, we’ll finish up with a look at one of the coolest new features in Photoshop CS3: Smart Filters.
#How to batch watermark photos in photoshop cs3 how to#
I’ll also show how to make an action that will apply the watermark to specific sized images. In this tutorial, I’ll go over how to define custom shapes for a copyright notice and save them into their own shape library so you can easily add them to your images. Of course, a copyright notice on a Web image will not stop nefarious rogues from ripping you off, but it does give fair notice of your ownership. Not only does this visibly tag the image with my copyright notice and sometimes my Web URL, but it also heightens awareness of copyright issues for those who may not be aware of them. Sometimes this is a semitransparent watermark over the photo (for Web images), and sometimes it’s on a thin white strip underneath the image (for photos intended for publication). For any image that I post on my website or submit for publication, I always add a copyright notice.
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