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Making WaterMarks--Updated

Journal Entry: Sat Jun 2, 2007, 9:29 AM

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Water Mark Howto with Gimp

In order to make a watermark on your renderings you will need either Adobe photoshop or Gimp.

For this example I will use Gimp because it is Free to download and use. Install these packages in the order given and then continue.

Goto this [link] to download Gimp for FREE

GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment --choose the proper one according to your system

The GIMP for Windows (version 2.2.14, updated installer)

GIMP Help 2 (version 0.11)

GIMP Animation Package (version 2.2.0)

Now that Gimp is installed lets open the program and load up your rendered image. To successfully create a watermark you need to follow these instructions:

goto the layers panel and press the new layer button on the bottom, choose transparent for layer type when prompted.

Now that there is a new layer click and drag it to the top of the list of layers

Press the alphabet button to enable text writing

Goto the Brushes options panel and change the font size to about 40, color to white, and the style to your desired settings

click on the far left side in the middle of your loaded rendering to start writing

In the subwindow that opens you will type your text for the watermark

Make any adjustments to the size of your text

Now let's position the text more center by pressing the 4 way arrow button on the main button display, click the text on the open image window and move it to where you want it

Now we can finally finish this by making your text into a watermark. On the layers panel there is a slider bar that changes the opacity/transparency of the layer that is highlighted. Since we should already have the text layer highlighted lets slide this bar down to about 4% but this will need to be adjusted according to how dark or how light your rendered image is you will have to make the call on how transparent you need it to be.

When you save the file choose the desktop or your saving folder, name your modified image and add the extension .JPG and when you press the save button you will be prompted for some more information. The quality bar should be set to 100 and under the advanced options remove the check for optimization.

Photoshop Tutorials by =r4v1

Pro Watermark Tutorial

3 Step Watermark Guide

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~ashmaster100 May 31, 2007, 7:54:42 AM

grt tut man

. hey can i ask where you are with that apophysis you are making? and if it is at the stages of testing it can i test it. would it be ok to use on windows if i were to test it ?

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`DWALKER1047 May 31, 2007, 8:01:29 AM

Thank you so much for making this tutorial for everyone. Would you mind if I provided a link to it in my journal?

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`cmptrwhz May 31, 2007, 8:13:17 AM

go right ahead, If you know of anything that should be added just let me know.

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`1arcticfox May 31, 2007, 8:15:00 AM

That is so nice of you Dave! this will be very helpful to all who don't have a watermarking program and don't want to purchase one. As one who has had art stolen, it is one more step to help stop ripping!

`cmptrwhz May 31, 2007, 8:18:55 AM

I now have 2 developers working with the programming code part and I am making the GUI windows part that you see as your using the program. I wish it was in the usuable stage but at he moment we are still chugging along at it. This adventure is a total re-write of the program as it was originally done in a windows only language. So we have to read and interrupt what is intended in the original program and then write our own code to do the same thing in linux/mac. Sorry but this is going to take a while. As soon I have some code that is usable it will be posted to SF.NET in the project page and from there downloadable for anyone to test and use.

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~ashmaster100 May 31, 2007, 8:23:51 AM

o i see. not to worry i'll wait

thanx

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~dmgcricket May 31, 2007, 8:50:51 AM

Thank you so much for this I really need it. I've been using the DA watermark and it's very clumsy and obtrusive. As always you come through!

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~phoenix75 May 31, 2007, 9:08:12 AM

Wow, Dave, thanks so very much for this tutorial. That is so nice of you to take all the time to write this out for all of us. I really appreciate this. Thank you, thank you, thank you. If I have any questions, I will ask them here.

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`cmptrwhz May 31, 2007, 9:36:16 AM

I hope I didn't forget anything detail wise, I didn't want to put too much detail in and make people read a novel just for a watermark howto, but I also didn't want to leave out too much detail on how to use the program. Your a pro...what do you think? Is this just right or should I include anything else? I think that the way it is you would be able to apply the concept of making a watermark in photoshop as well.

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