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How to Watermark Photos in Batch Photos

Watermarks can either be a semi-transparent text or a symbol that is added to a photograph indicating that the image you are viewing is copyrighted. If you are posting your images to a website, you should consider adding a watermark to your images to advise viewers that the pictures are copyright protected. You can add the watermark individually to each picture or you can use photo-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop to add the watermark in batch photo processing.

Things You'll Need

Adobe Photoshop

Instructions

- 1
  Turn on your computer and open the Adobe Photoshop program. Select "Edit" from the welcome screen once the program opens.
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  Click "File" and select "Process Multiple Files" from the drop down menu. Click "Browse" next to the "Source" line and select the folder you want to batch-process. Click "Browse" in the "Destination" line and create a new folder where the watermarked photos will be saved to.
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  Click "Labels" on the right side of the window and select "Watermark" from the drop down box. Type the wording you want to appear on your photo in the "Custom Text Box." Choose the position for the watermark, font, and size of type in the next two boxes.
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  Click the "Opacity" drop down menu and position the tab along the slide rule to determine how transparent you want the text to be.
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  Select the color for the text in the next box and click "OK." Once clicked, the program will run through the selected folder and add the watermark you have created to each picture in the folder and save it to the new folder.

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