Making a watermark in Paintshop Pro

Thank you Julie for asking me to share this tutorial :)


Hopefully you'll be able to follow this tut and will be adding watermarks to your photos easily afterwards.

I am using PSP 7 for this tut, although other PSP versions will do this too.

1. Open up a new image with a transparent background, mine measures 300 x 300 pixels.



2. use the bucket fill tool to add a base colour (any darkish colour will do, this is purely to be able to see the actual watermark whilst working on your design)

or skip the above and open a new image with a darkish background (I always use a transparent image to start with so have transparent as default)

3. Add a new raster layer (Layers > New Raster Layer)




4. On Layer 2 (click on layer 2 on the layer palette to select) ... click the paint brush tool and select a background design from the list, I chose this skinny flower design and added 2 flowers



5. Add a drop shadow

6. Make the opacity less by sliding down the slider in the layer palette on layer 2 only, I took mine down to 30%

7. Add another raster layer

8. On Layer 3 ... click on the text tool and add your text in white, I chose verdana font and typed 'Handmade By'

and on the same layer (layer 3) I added the word 'Inchy', but in a different font and bigger...

9. Take the opacity of layer 3 down to 60%

10. Crop around your watermark so that there isn't loads of space around it

11. Now we'll get rid of the background colour, click on Layer 1 in the layer palette and then hit the delete button on your keyboard, the background should now have gone and you will have a transparent background again

12. Merge all the layers into one (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible)

13. Make your watermark into a picture tube... (File > Export > Picture Tube)

14. Give your watermark a name

That's it, you've done it! YAY!

Your watermark is ready to use and is available to add to your photos

See how it is slightly see-through?

also, you can alter the size of your watermark by sliding the percentage scale so that you can fit your watermark onto a large layout or a tiny inchy ;)

Happy PSP'ing !!!

Jo xx

A note from Julie :~ Thanks so much for a great tutorial Jo :)

Check out Jo's Siggi Shop blog

She is a whizz with Paint Shop Pro and has made beautiful blog headers including the Inspirational headers!!

Her rates are very affordable too and she has the patience of a saint and is a really lovely lady to deal with :)