MADRide Photo Watermark - "How to guide"

[Jamathi]

How do you all get that MAD signature around it?
Like to do that to my pics.

[Barfridge]

Jamathi: talk to Dugy, he has the template

[dugy]

How do you all get that MAD signature around it?
Like to do that to my pics.

Jamathi - and others;

The templates are here:
http://www.sunburntphotography.com/P...-Landscape.psd

http://www.sunburntphotography.com/P...9-Portrait.psd

[browncow]

Are you able to batch apply that to all the photo's in a folder/directory in photoshop?

[dugy]

You'll need to record an "Action" in photoshop and then use the Automate/Batch function.

If you can't figure it out or get help from google I can walk you thru it tonight.

[dugy]

How do you all get that MAD signature around it?
Like to do that to my pics.

If you would like to add the MAD Ride watermark to your photo's here are the links to the Landscape and Portrait versions.

http://www.sunburntphotography.com/P...-Landscape.psd

http://www.sunburntphotography.com/P...9-Portrait.psd

You will need to have a version of Adobe Photoshop to open the .psd files.

I'll post up a "how to" in a few minutes for those that don't know how to use them.

[dugy]

Not sure to what level of knowledge of photoshop people have so:

When you open the watermark, have a look at the layers tab on the right hand side.

You'll see there are 3 layers.

- A text layer.
- The watermark layer.
- The background layer.

Double click on the text layer.
Now edit the text on the page and enter you name.
Next select the background layer and we're ready to go.

Find the picture that you would like to watermark.
Resize it to 972 x 648 pixels, or thereabouts.
(Your camera make take a slightly different ration of height to width image.)

Press Ctrl+A to select all.
Press Ctrl+C to copy.
Go back to the watermark image.
(Ensure you have selected the background layer.)
Press Ctrl+V to paste.
Save-As you file to a new jpg file and your done.

Repeat as many time as you like.

If you have trigger finger and lots of photo's you want to watermark you need to learn how to use the "Action" and "Automate - Batch" functions in Photoshop.

Will get to that in the next post.

[dugy]

It would probably be best if you google for Photoshop Action and batch tutorials...
Not sitting at a pc with photoshop at the moment so will have to guesstimate some of this.

Have a read of this so what I put up will make some sense:
Photoshop Tutorial - Actions | Switch on the Code

Lets give it a shot:

Have the watermark psd file open on the screen, with the background layer selected.
Now got a "Create a new Action"
Open the file that you want to watermark.
Resize
Select all
Copy
Close this photo
Now click on the watermark picture.
Paste.
Save-As.
Now stop recording.

Go to the Automate Batch option.

Apply your action as per the tutorial.
BUT make sure you have ticked the following two check boxes.
"Override Action "Open" Commands"
&
"Override Action "Save As" Commands"