For those wanting to easily watermark their images for copyright protection and to also re-size both horizontal and vertical images in one Photoshop action.

Create the Watermark Image

In Photoshop, create a canvas using the longest dimension you’ll be resizing your images to. For example, if you will be resizing your images to be 1024 pixels at their widest by 768 pixels at the highest, make your canvas 1024 pixels wide. The action will adjust the watermark to fit the re-sized images based on their vertical or horizontal orientation. Add your watermark on a new layer. Hide the background layer so it is transparent. Do not flatten.

Go to File>Save for Web and choose to save as file format “PNG-24″ and name the file watermark.png somewhere on your computer where it will stay.

Create Photoshop Action

Open any image. Open the Actions palette and click on the fly out menu, then choose “New Action”. Name the action Watermark or whatever you choose.

ACTION STEPS:

1. File>Automate>Fit Image
The Fit Image command will constrain proportions and not distort images, so insert dimensions for the maximum pixels you want the final images to be in for both height and width.

2. File>Place and find the watermark.png you just created. It will be inserted on the center of the image. If you want it to be aligned along the bottom, top, or sides, select the background and the watermark layers, go to Layer>Align and choose from the options there. Double click the watermark layer to set it.

3. Go to the Layers palette and adjust the opacity for the watermark to suit your needs.

4. Flatten

Stop the action by clicking the square left of the red circle at the bottom of the actions palette. The action will remember where to get the watermark, and where to put it on either vertical or horizontal images.

Select the folder you placed the new action in from within the Actions palette, then click the fly out menu and choose “save actions”. This will save your new action so it will be available when Photoshop is restarted.

P.S. If you want to use the © symbol, it is located under the custom shape tool in Photoshop’s tool palette in the “shape” presets.

       

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