![]() ![]() I generally only edit photos in Photoshop but I was given the Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 to try out and I find it really handy for the family photos that I sometimes had a hard time editing. After all, life is too short to blog with bad photos.The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. Please share the home page for this course. Please leave them in the comments below! Do you know a blogger who would benefit from this workshop? ![]() In the next lesson in our series, I’m going to introduce you to one of my favorite bloggers and a Photoshop Elements expert! She’s going to take you from beginner to Power User and has the road already mapped out. After doing this just a handful of times, I can open a photo, add my watermark, and save in about 20 seconds. If this seems like a lot of work, don’t worry – it’s going to save you lots of time in the long run, and you’ll get quicker at applying that watermark brush every time you use it. Select the layer of your document that you applied the watermark to, then turn down the opacity to whatever works best for this particular photo.Make sure your foreground color is set to white.Use the toggle at the top of the palette to select a width for your brush that makes sense for your photo. It should then be available on the brushes palette. If your watermark brush isn’t already available on the brushes palette, you’ll need to use the flyout menu and select “Load Brushes” and find the brush you’ve saved.Open up the photo you want to watermark.On the flyout menu on the right side of the Brushes palette, select “Save Brush.” Make sure you know the location you’re saving this brush to! I usually save to my desktop and then move the file to a more sensible spot later. Check out your new brush in the Brushes palette (top left).On the top tool bar, select Edit > Define Brush.Make sure “Default Brushes” is selected on the dropdown. Select the brush tool (shortcut: B) and go to your brush selection palette on the top bar.If your type doesn’t take up the whole canvas, you can use the Crop tool (shortcut: C) to fit the edges of your canvas to your artwork (not shown in video).Click and type on your canvas to add text, making adjustments as necessary to get the look *you* want. Click the Type tool (shortcut key: T) and choose a font.Create a new document with a transparent background and high resolution.Then proceed as normal.Ī quick review of the steps, in case you don’t want to watch the video again: If you already have a logo that you want to use for the watermark, go to File > Place to place the hi-res logo on your canvas.You can always start out with a square canvas (like 2000 x 2000px) and crop the whole image to the size of your brush before you save it. If you have a square logo, for example, it will look different from mine. When you select the dimensions for your watermark brush (I set the width as 2000px and the height at 300px), you’ll want to choose dimensions that fit your logo or your blog’s name.Note: Don’t forget to adjust the video’s image quality so you can see things better! Just click on the little “gear” symbol at the bottom of the video player and select 720px, or the HD (high definition) option.Ī few things I didn’t point out in the video, but perhaps should have: Forget manually typing your copyright notice on every single photo – we’re taking the shortcut! In this lesson, I’m going to share how you can create a brush in Elements to watermark your photos and protect them from theft. Welcome back to Photoshop Elements for Bloggers! In the last lesson, you learned how to add text to your photos with the goal of creating Pinnable images for your blog.
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