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welcome everybody in this video and they show you how you can watermark copies of
your photos
so you can put your copyright straight on your photo or your logo for example
now with Lightroom you can only put this on copies of your photos not sure
original setting here in lightroom
so you can access watermarking through the export dialogue
and also in the slideshow print and web modules
so i'm gonna go ahead and go into export here
but notice that i have three photos selected that i'm going to export
now i would choose whatever file settings
i want to go ahead
and click on my small j peg preset
to give me a starting point
you will not be able to watermark
d_n_c_'s or originals
so just take a cs p_s_ teason tiff files
i really must say i want my watermark aunt j pegs that i send out
and then scroll down here
to the watermarking section and check watermark now you have two choices you
can use this simple copyright watermark
or you can go into edit watermarks simple copyright watermark is the old
lightroom two version of the watermark
it pulls the information
from the creator field in your photos medicator
so if you've been adding your copywriting contact information
through a metadata template in the import dialog
or in the library module
this would pull from that creator field
now with this old version of the watermark
you have no control over size and placement of the watermark
so here's a photo i exported
with this watermark setting
it's in the bottom left they have no control over size or placement
and the only way to change the text is to go into the metadata and change the
creator field
this is fine for this size photo but if an exporting a much larger photo
it ends up being very tiny down here in the bottom left corner no one can even
read it
so no flexibility
let's take a look at what came along with Lightroom 3
if i click on this dropdown pick and choose edit watermarks now the first try
second make is to go with the graphic instead of a text watermark
so if you have a logo for example that you've created in photoshop or
illustrator
you can click on graphic
and then locate the graphic on your hard drive
notice that has to be a p_n_g_ origin a pig farm
instead I'm going to do a text watermarked
and down here in the white box and they go ahead and tight attacks
ellarum should come with a copyright symbol in here if you don't have the
copyright symbol you can type option g on a mac
or ault zero one six nine out of pc
if you have a numeric keypad to the right of the letters on your keyboard
if not you can copy and paste one in from the web
or you can use the parentheses around to see notice also that i can have malt
alliance in the watermark
couple on their website for example
may go ahead and delete that for this example below
now i can increase the size
either by clicking and dragging
on the watermark
or coming down to the side section here
so i can choose it
at different size here
i can click on fayette oregon click on phil
domenici's proportional here
and i'll make it about that day
i wanna see what this guy look like a on all of the photos on exporting and not
just this one
to do that and they hit this button right here
to cycle through the photos now in terms of placement of the watermark
i have some options here
i can choose what it's kind of the anchored to serrated how it's anchored
to the bottom left
i can make it the center
for example
i can make at the top right
once you've chosen word anchor it to if your along the edge you're going to have
these instead options so if i'm getting too close to the right hand edge for
example
i could bring the horizontal handset
to give it more padding
and i can do that vertically as well
so i have a lot of control
over the placement of this
i'd just like to remember to preview it
on various photographs
i may go ahead and bring this
bring it in a little bit so i'm designing a watermark in selecting
photographs they're both fertile and horizontal
you can also rotate your watermark but instead i want the watermark along the
bottom right here
up choose the right hand h_r_ anchor it to the bottom right
and then i'll click rotate
now it's too big at this point
so i'll come up to proportional and i'll make it smaller
and then i'll use the vertical inset
to bring it away from that bottom edge so you have a lot of control here
now face scroll back up
i can also change the font
so i'll go with something they have no idea what when it will look like
fairy tale
and often with the fonts i can change the style as well
now alignment here
is not alignment with in the photo it's alignment within the cell
it generally is not going to do very much
for alignment i would come back down
to the anchor to decide whether you wanted to anchor to the sender
left right up on them
you can change the color of your watermark
so i could go with something
very carrier's ship or very tasteful
i'm gonna go ahead and change it back to wait though
and finally
you can control the opacity of it
taken faded out so that it clearly identified your photographs
without detracting from the viewers experience as much
cloud cover all of the options you can see that you have a lot of choices
now you can save multiple watermarks for different purposes now that i've
designed this i'm gonna go ahead and click on save
and i give this unnamed sought this call this bottom
sideways
watermark
and then i'll could create
now might go ahead
export these photos
and
when they come up
i'll just show you
the watermark it's been applied
okay so it's going to look at this one
so here it is faded out nicely
on this photo now i'm gonna go back into the export dialogue
to show you a couple of watermark management tips
so i'll come down here first of all noticed that this new one now appears in
my list so i can choose a date and i want
i can choose another one that created
or i can go into edit watermarks and create a new one
within this dialogue here
once you select the watermark that you want to work with
you can rename your watermarks
and you can't also to leave your watermarks so that's a very common
question how do i tilly the watermarks that i created when i was just playing
around
so just keep in mind that this is here
if you're on at different watermark
the trick is to select that watermark from your list
and then you get the option to delete it
so this concludes the video on watermarking copies of your photographs