Watermarks That Look Good - Photoshop Tip
 

Got the latest one done. This is a nice little tip for what file format to use and the steps for making a good watermark for both pics and vids.

http://www.marktiarra.com/photoshop/...p_lesson8.html

i love you mark

Will ya' show me in Phoenix. =]

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i have another tour..

hit me up on icq :thumbsup

No prob... I'm leaving for a competition in a few minutes though so I'll hit you up later tonight.

Have fun ya'all!

very nice mark

Bookmarking this thread for later.

:)

wouldn't it make more sense to just bookmark his site? :winkwink:


nice one mark! keep this up and I might actually learn PS :thumbsup

Cool stuff dude

Heyt man if ya have anything you wanna learn let me know. After page 3 on there I'm fresh out of ideas that don't involve third party filters. =]

Bookmarked! Was looking for this yesterday :thumbsup

well actually now that you mention it. Say I'm cropping 200 thumbs (can't batch because I need to be able to choose what to crop/tweak etc) all the same size. Is there a way that PS will auto-resize after I crop? Instead of having to crop then resize each individually.

Definitely bookmark material. Great and informative site, Mark. Congrats and thanks!

awesome tip!!!

You rule Mark! What else could I say?

Great site, great tutorials! Thanks a lot for sharing such a valuable information with us!

why? if you're manually cropping each thumb how much time does it take to resize - 10 seconds - creating an action won't be much faster.

best idea is to save the 200 cropped thumbs in a folder as you go along, no compression - then when you're finished cropping them all run a batch resize action on that folder.

Thanks for the tutorials. The extract tutorial really helped me out!

Just one question, why not save the watermark file as a flattened PSD file? That way you don't compress it to save it and compress it again in the image being watermarked. You onyl end upw ith compression on the saved image you just watermarked.

nice tutorial man :thumbsup

thanks for posting that

Cheers, Bookmarked.

Great tips ... thanks for the info.

Great tutorials man

Mark you should make the next page button a little bit bigger or something

200x10 = 2000 seconds = 33.3 minutes a day that i could be saving. Was just lookin to save myself an extra step here or there. I'd prefer to be able to sharpen/etc right after the resize, so adding a batch to it would just add more time to the process.

As for actions, might as well be speaking greek. I use PS for basic stuff, I don't know all the ins and outs of it

Keep it up with the tutorials :)

Good Stuff. Thanks!

Another awesome article :thumbsup

you might be better off using something other than PS - Rico from Panchodog was raving today about the new ACDSEE Pro - does all that stuff. Photoshop is kind of clumsy for this type of grunt work.

Right on. Thanks for the info!

I agree for "grunt work" it's not usually the best choice.

But to answer the question about cropping to a specific size... when you select the crop tool in any of the latest CS Photoshop versions, you should see at the top of the screen a width and height box that you can fill in how many pixel you want to crop to. If you select only one or the other it will resize the image to that as the max dimension. If you select both, it will only let you draw a crop box the aspect ration of the dimensions chosen and will resize the image as soon as you finish the crop.

Like this:

1) You take this image and you want to crop out the guitar player into a 120x80 thumb:
http://www.guaranteeddesigns.com/pro...quicktut/1.jpg

2) So you select the crop tool and set the dimensions at the top of the screen:
http://www.guaranteeddesigns.com/pro...quicktut/2.jpg

3) Crop in however you want - PS will force the ratio on you.
http://www.guaranteeddesigns.com/pro...quicktut/3.jpg

4) Giving you the final thumb in the exact size you want without another command:
http://www.guaranteeddesigns.com/pro...quicktut/4.jpg

Hate to admit I'm being a banner whore but I've just been playing around with ad placement around those links to try to get a few more clicks on the Google ads. It's very 1997 of me, but I do want to figure out how to optimize the adwords game.

nice stuff you got there, cheers to this man! :pimp

Bumping for XxXotic...

Thanks for all the tips and tips to come!
You rock!