Tutorial 19

How to add a watermark

In this tutorial, we will show you how to add a watermark to an image.

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In this tutorial, we use Figure 10.19.1 as the original image. You may right click and save this image to your disk, then open it in Image Broadway if you want to practice it yourself while following the tutorial steps below. You may also right click on this image and copy it to the Clipboard and use the Image Broadway File > Clipboard menu to paste it in as a new image. Optionally, you may click the Navigator tab to display the Navigator window and use its slider bar to zoom in and out; or you may click the Info tab to display the exact pixel color and cursor information in the Info window.

   
   Figure 10.19.1

1. If you want to add text as a watermark, select the Text tool on the image toolbar and click inside the image to open the Text dialog box as shown in Figure 10.19.2.

   
   Figure 10.19.2

2. Type in the desired text, select font, style, color (click on the color box to open it for more color selections), and click OK to place the text in the image.

3. Click on the Move tool on the image toolbar to select the text and drag to move it to where you want it.

4. Select the Layers tab in the toolbox and enter the number 50 or another number of your choice for Opacity.. The result is shown in Figure 10.19.3.

     
   Figure 10.19.3