Using Actions to Watermark Your Photos in Photoshop

The dreaded Photoshop. It's the program every blogger wants but it's so baffling that some decide not to try to learn it at all.

There really is so much you can do with Photoshop though! For example, when I owned my shop, I was able to batch edit and save all of my product pictures. This allowed me to watermark and slightly edit all of my pictures with only a few clicks of the mouse, freeing me up to do other things.

This is going to be a three part series because there was just too many pictures I had to take in order to show you how to do both things.

Today, we're going to focus on watermarking your pictures by creating an action. This will allow you to make a couple of clicks anytime you want to watermark your pictures and it will use the same font and font size each time which will allow your photos to be recognizable to your blog. 

Your first step is to resize your image to the size you want it to be. (I showed you how to batch resize in this post last week)

Now we need to create your action.

Open up a picture you'd like to watermark.

Next you need to open up your actions dashboard. On the right hand side, there should be a little folder with a "play" side on it. Click that. 

If you don't have that little folder, you can still open your actions by going to "Window" on the bar across the top of your photoshop and then clicking "Actions" or by simply clicking Alt+F9 at the same time.

Next, look for the little toolbar at the bottom part of the actions. You'll see a square (For stop), a circle (for record), a triangle (for play), a little folder, and a little square that looks like a piece of paper is being peeled off of it, then finally a trashcan.  Click on the one that looks like the paper being peeled off (it's 2nd from the right, next to the trashcan)

The little window you see above will pop up, asking you to name your action. I named mine "Watermarking"

It will automatically start recording for you. You'll be able to tell because the little circle will turn red. If it's not red, then click it so that it turns red. 

After the circle is red, select the font you want, the color and the size and type your watermark. Then arrange it where you want it. 

Then click the little square button on the action toolbar. 

And you're done!!

Now, whenever you select that action, your watermark will be placed on the image you are editing!

Sidenote though: Since I edited a vertical picture, this action will only work for other vertical pictures. In order to edit a horizontal picture, I'd have to create a new action.

Now you can save as you normally would and then put it in your blog post!

Next week, I'll upload the next steps for how to edit an entire folder at the same time and how to save all of those so be sure to check back!

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