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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: How To Add A Copyright Watermark To Your Images

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to add a copyright watermark to your images.

After you open the image to which you want to add the copyright watermark, you’ll want to choose the Type tool.

text tool

Now choose a location where you want your copyright statement to be and type in your statement (you can do ‘© 2008 your name’ or ‘all rights reserved’ or anything else you want to type). To get the copyright symbol, either insert symbol or if you are using a Windows keyboard on a Windows machine, you can use the keyboard shortcut of Alt+0169. Make sure you are using the numpad for the keyboard shortcut.

copyright statement

Once you are happy with the placement of your copyright statement, change the fill of the layer to 0%. Your text will disappear from sight at this point.

0% fill

Now, right click the layer and choose ‘Blending Options . . . .’ Check the ‘Bevel and Emboss’ option and now you should be able to see your new copyright watermark statement.

bevel and emboss

You can change the settings around in the options of the bevel and emboss for different styles of the copyright watermark.

copyright watermark result

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