Thank you so much! I had to add logos to 130 pictures which would have taken hours but this method took less than 5 mins for all of them....life saver

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! It's always nice to hear of a success story.

Thank you, Robin, for this excellent, very-easy-to-follow tutorial regarding how to not only create a watermark, but to also automate adding a watermark to a batch of images. Great job! Thank you!

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thank you very much.

Awesome!! I absolutely love automation. Now I am running the automation and I can make lunch instead of sitting here for the next 2 hours. Thank you Robin!

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

Great to know this has helped you. I'm also a big fan of automation. There are better things to do with your time than repeat the same thing hundreds of times (but more slowly).

Best instruction I have found. Even the software doesn’t give as good detailed directions on how to perform this action. Especially with batch WM. Thanks!!

@RobinWhalley

11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful. THank you very much.

Wow, FINALLY found someone who does it perfectly in your explanation! Hope this will work on the latest Adobe version of PS. Thanks

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and yes, it will work in the latest version of Photoshop.

Thank you Robin for the succinct and excellently narrated tutorial!

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.

This video is 2 years old, but the method shown still works like a dream! Thank you very much - you just saved me a lot of time!

@RobinWhalley

11 ай бұрын

Thanks. I have a new one that's released in 15 minutes from now. You might find that useful as well.

God bless you for a clear succinct example.

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. I'm glad you liked it.

Thank you very much! You saved me from a lot of trouble.

@RobinWhalley

7 ай бұрын

Glad I could help.

thank you Robin , very well explained )

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Thank you.

thank you so much!!! This was so helpful! I am nwew2 to photoshop and you are super easy to understand and go very slow for me to follow!

@RobinWhalley

3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped. Thank you

Robin is the GOAT !!! THX

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, although I'm sure Muhammad Ali might not have agreed. 😀

Thank you so much saved me soooo much time !

@RobinWhalley

9 ай бұрын

Great to hear. Thank you

Thank you for this! I have over 20,000 photos to watermark!

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

Glad it helped and good luck with so many images to process. You may want to look into creating a Droplet. You can do this in the File | Automate menu. It's a long time since I've used them but they allow you to process Actions against folders full of files without needing to have Photoshop open. It may allow you to get on and do other things while images are being watermarked.

Thank you so much!

@RobinWhalley

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

this just helped me. Thank you.

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped. Thank you

absolute legend

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks.

This is great Robin thanks! I have a question about taking this one step further no one has been able to answer... What if I have an excel sheet or text file with rows of different text, say states, cities, or quotes. How would I be able to bulk merge the quote with an image in the order I want? For example, the images folder contains in order pictures of Washington, Lincoln, and Obama while another folder or file has their respective quotes in order. Now to merge all of them?

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

I can understand what you are trying to do but I don't think the automation in Photoshop is sufficiently advanced to do this currently.

To place it say in the right hand top corner when recording the action you can select both layers, choose the move tool use the align options. Then you can use the arrow tools to move it in a bit and down a bit as required. I found the gotcha was some files opened with background others with layer (they were a mixture of tif files). So selecting the bottom layer was not going to always work. The workaround was to select all, duplicate layer via copy, flatten - then proceed with the selection... you might not need that step though.

Hi, THank you so much. Btw, how to automatically save as/export it to JPG. so i don't want to have psd as my result, just jpg.

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

It's the same approach. When you record the macro, set the save option to be JPEG rather than PSD. You'll just lose the option to adjust things later if something doesn't work.

thank u !

@RobinWhalley

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome.

Is there a way of integrating a preset destination location for the watermark within the action sequence? (eg. 50 pixels from left border and 50 pixels from the lower border) thx

@RobinWhalley

3 жыл бұрын

Not as easily as it sounds. The only way that I can think of is to select the watermark layer and the image background layer together using the move tool. You can then click the Align Left followed by Align Bottom icons in the Move Tools toolbar. This gets the watermark to the bottom corner. After that you can drag it inwards with the Move Tool to include some space. Alternatively you could include the border space in the watermark. I recorded those steps and it seemed to work OK.

@12345678948789pk

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobinWhalley including the border space sounds more straightforward. thx for the tutorial :)

@RobinWhalley

3 жыл бұрын

@@12345678948789pk You are welcome

Hey thanks for the great tutorial! It works great, but is there a way to batch export them all as well? Edit: I found a way, you can use File > Scripts > Image Processor instead of batch as trying to export in the recording didn't work for some reason. But if you know a way to do this in the initial batch process that would be amazing other wise auto exporting after the auto watermarking isn't that bad.

@RobinWhalley

10 ай бұрын

Photoshop treats Export the same as Save As. It's a legacy feature so you are better using the Save As command where you also have more formats you can use.

Thank you for the batching info, one question I have is can these be directly saved as jpg file instead of the psd?

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you can. I chose to use PSD so that I could save the layers which allows me to reposition the watermark.

@LukeDruid

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobinWhalley exporting will not safe in my 'actions' tab though?

@SolipsisPassport

2 ай бұрын

@@LukeDruid I had the same issue. @RobinWhalley Why won't the action record to export a jpg? How do we batch to exports jpgs please?

Hello! Excellent tutorial! But I have a doubt. I did everything as stated here, but when I select a batch to process PS asks me to manually save each image individually and not how I programmed the action to do so. :( Could someone help? Thanks a lot!

@RobinWhalley

6 ай бұрын

In the Batch dialog, under the Destination section, there is an option to "Override Action Save As". When this is ticked, you aren't prompted with the save dialog and Photoshop will save to the existing file. Just be sure to test your Action first using a folder of test images, before applying it to your original images.

can you save as jpeg or for web using this method?

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can but if you save your image in the JPEG, PNG or WebP format you can't move the watermark. If that's important to you I would add a step in the macro to save the image twice. Once in the Photoshop format so you can move the wartermark and again as output for web which can also include resizing the image.

Thank you for this informative tutorial sir!

@RobinWhalley

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

Does anybody know how to set it so the watermark goes into a specific place instead of the middle?

Depending on orientation or filesize the watermark will land alway in the middle. What I want is, that the watermark is in the down right corner always in the same distance to the edge of the image and the same size relative to the width. How would I do that?

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

I don't know if that's possible using the Actions. The movement of objects is recorded as relative to their current position. You really need it to be relative to a document co-ordinate to do it automatically.

I did everything you said it kind of worked except when i batched it , most of the pictures had half the logo, how do i fix that

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

It's very hard to say without seeing your computer, images and batch process. I'm guessing, but your images might be different sizes and use different aspect ratios which will cause the logo to shift position.

i do not seem to have the "watermark" option in the "Batch" menu screen am i missing something or is this just not available for CS6 ?

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

You only have the Watermark option if that's what you called your Macro when you saved it. I'm pretty sure CS6 worked the same way.

I've referenced your video before to make batch watermark actions. Something broke over time and I had to make a new one. But now I have a new problem. WHen I set everything up and press Okay in the Batch menu, the automation runs, but all it does is save every watermarked file as the same file name (ex. IMG 1_watermarked.jpg), automatically overriding it. So an image that should be saved as "IMG_15_watermarked" is instead saved as "IMG_1_watermarked" and is the only image file saved to the folder. IMG_2 overrides IMG_1, IMG_3 overrides IMG_2, etc. I hope I'm being clear enough.

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

It souds like you may have saved the file naming as part of the action. You need to handle the file naming in the Batch dialog (File | Batch in the menu). That's where you can define to append "watermarked" to the original file name to produce a new unique name. I hope that sorts it out for you.

@raptor1901

2 жыл бұрын

​@@RobinWhalley Unfortunately no. I did exactly the same way you did. I eventually got it to start working, but I didn't change anything in the macro.

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pleased you managed to get it working. Sorry I couldn’t say what the problem was. It’s hard when I can’t see the macro or the batch settings. The other alternative to batch watermarking that I’ve been using recently is a custom watermark brush. You can then add the watermark anywhere with a single click. I published a video about this using Affinity Photo recently but you can do the same in Photoshop.

how would i get it to automaticly export the image to jpeg? i dont need the psd files. **edited** i dit what Robin did and after that i used the image processor to batch export them to jpg. its an extra step but workt very well.

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear that you worked it out.

@sophiemulders

Жыл бұрын

extra question @RobinWhalley what if one of the pictures in the batch has a different size, say portrait instead of landscape

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

@@sophiemulders Then it probably wouldn't work automatically and you might need to move the watermark. If you want to watermark lots of different sized images then consider saving your watermark as a custom brush. You can then apply it to any image with a single click. It's an alternative approach that's a little more manual but still saves a lot of time.

I can copy de watermark, but when I want to paste in photo, the paste isn't available. What I'm doing wrong? And I'm using the version CS6, any problem?

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

If the paste feature isn't available then it means you haven't selected and copied anything to the clipboard. You may think that you have but for some reason it hasn't worked. This usually happens because there is nothing selected at the time you try to copy.

I'm trying to save as JPG, but the export part won't save in my action. Any tips?

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

Do you know for certain that the Save As step hasn't been recorded in the Action whilst other steps are? Have you checked you can see each step in the Actions Window but not the Save As? If this is the case then I'm sorry I don't know what's causing it. If however you are trying to play the action as part of a batch to process and the Save As dialog doesn't show then its likely to be an option in the Batch dialog. There is an option there to Override the Save As dialog when the destination is recorded as part of the Action. From memory I think you need to uncheck this which will cause the dialog to display for each image that's saved.

I did everything as you did, but the error message "The command 'copy' is not currently available" keeps popping up. Any suggestions?

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

No sorry. It's very difficult to identify a problem like this without watching what you are doing and seeing exactly when the message pops up. It isn't something that I've seen.

@sqfothify

2 жыл бұрын

Mine is like that too. Still trying to figure it out so I can "record" the action. Right now I'm doing the manual "duplicate layer" option. Not sure that'll work for a batch.

Strange, it didn't work for me :/ something about 'feathering' not currently available. Edit: Ah, it may be because when I go to make the watermarking action, it's set to Default Actions with no option to make it Batch Processing Actions.

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

I just read the first part of this and thought I have no idea what's wrong other than it will be something that can't be done in the macro. These can be very tricky to track down so I'm glad you spotted it.

why can i not copy & paste my watermark layer?

@RobinWhalley

3 жыл бұрын

The most likely causes are that you're not doing the copy and paste correctly or that there is a setting on your computer or in Photoshop that's interfering. Try the following to see if you get a better result. Open the image that you want to apply the watermark to and the image containing your watermark layer. Select the watermark layer and then choose “Layer | Duplicate Layer” in the main Photoshop menu. This will display a dialog where you can select the Destination as the other document that’s open. I don’t know if this will work but it could help to narrow down the cause of your problem.

@sqfothify

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobinWhalley This just helped my issue. THANK YOU!

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

@@sqfothify You're very welcome.

@sqfothify

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobinWhalley on my watermark layer, I only used text and no additional layered image. I did not need to "merge layers", BUT my watermark layer still shows the T (text icon) in the right side working layers area, not the grayish square like you show in minute 3:31. I'm wondering that is why I don't have a copy & paste option - because my layer isn't merged or flattened or anything? Thoughts on a step I should do to make my watermark "copy-able"? Thanks again, I've watched your tutorial so many times and done each step along with you and it's been great!

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

@@sqfothify It's very difficult to identify the problem without being able to watch your screen whilst you work. The most likely problem when the copy and paste options aren't available is that you don't have anything selected. The reason there is a greyish square around my watermark is that I have the Move tool selected in the Photoshop Tools Palette and have the layer containing the watermark selected in the Layers Window. Try clicking the Move Tool in the tools palette and then clciking the layer with your watermark in the Layers Window. When you do this, it should become highlighted. You should then be able to use the Edit Copy comand in the menu.

it doesn't create a new layer. guess this is out of date

@RobinWhalley

9 ай бұрын

It still works for me with the latest version of PhotoShop as well as the current PhotoShop Beta. Sorry, I don't know what might be causing that for you.

Nobody wants a watermark centered so this tutorial should have been Batch Processing only with a discussion of adjusting the watermark location

@RobinWhalley

Жыл бұрын

There are plenty of times that you need to add a watermark to the centre of an image, especially in volume. When you send a batch of images to a client to evaluate, you don't want someone in the creative department thinking they can use them by mistake (it's happened to me more than once). A watermark in the centre makes it clear that it's for evaluation and not use. If all that you want to do is add your name to the bottom or corner of an image, you are better off creating a watermark custom brush. Whilst this video uses Affinity Photo, you can do the same thing in Photoshop kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5lm2bFppbuql7g.html

Dude you need to drink a bit of coffee so you speak faster. I fell asleep within the first 2 minutes of the video.

@RobinWhalley

2 жыл бұрын

Or you could just playback at 1.25x and save yourself some time

Doesn't work AT ALL!

@RobinWhalley

14 күн бұрын

You're doing something wrong then.

@YoungNino2017

14 күн бұрын

@@RobinWhalley I'm not, photoshop is doing something wrong