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[Male] Now I'd like to show you how to add text to an image in order to create
a watermark in Photoshop Elements.
I'm currently in the Elements Organizer application,
and I'd like to select an image from my photo browser to open up inside of the editor.
I'm going to go ahead and select this image down here
towards the bottom of my browser.
Click on it in order to select it.To open it up in the editor, we'll go up here in the Fix tab.
Click on the down-facing arrow and choose "Full Photo Edit."
Okay, we now have the image open inside of the editor,
and we know that in order to add text to an image
that we need to work with the Type tool, which is over here.
We'll click on the T icon in the Tools panel to access that tool,
or you can press the letter T on your keyboard
to access this horizontal type tool quickly and easily.
Now we have a series of options up here in the Options panel for that tool.
We should probably choose a few options before we start typing.
You can just click in here in the image area and start typing using the last used settings,
but if you know what type of font you want to use and what size,
you might want to go ahead and just choose that first, so let's go ahead and do that.
We'll click on the font list to choose a different font.
It's currently set to Helvetica, which is a very common font.
I think I want to actually scroll down, though, to where it says "Myriad Pro."
All right, then there's our font style, and I'm going to keep this set to bold, actually.
I want it to look pretty bold when we create this watermark text.
Now, if you're following along with me and for some reason you don't have
Myriad Pro in your font list, that's okay because chances are,
you're not going to have the exact same fonts on your machine as I do mine.
So, if you don't have Myriad Pro, you can use something similar.
You can try a different type of sans-serif font like Arial or Futura or something like that.
Anything that has a nice, bold font style, because when you're creating a watermark,
you want to have nice, thick characters that you can see here.
Even though we're going to screen them back like a normal watermark,
you still want to have identifiable characters, so a thin typeface
or a script face, not a good idea.
Okay, so that's why we're choosing Myriad Pro Bold.
Up here we can also choose a font size.
I think I'm going to choose the largest size available in the list, 72 point.
That may not still be big enough, but for now, that'll work for me.
Anti-Aliased option you always want to keep on so that your edges of your text
look nice when you add the text to your image.
Not going to add any of these additional options.
For alignment, I'm going to choose Left Align.
I'm going to keep it set to Auto Leading because I'm not going to have
more than one line of text in this instance.
For character color, though, it's currently set to the default foreground, which is black.
We can see that down here as well.
I want to switch that.
I want to swap this out because I actually want to use white as my character color,
so I'm going to click the arrows over here in the upper right of the Swatch icons
at the bottom of the Tools panel.
Notice that the ToolTips says "Switch Foreground and Background Colors."
Click on the arrow to do that.
You can also press "X" on your keyboard to swap those colors,
and look what's happened up here in the Options panel.
We now have white as the text color.
We're not going to use any of these other options up here in the Options panel.
All we need to change for now--I can just click over here on the left,
since we're using left alignment, and I want my watermark to take up
a good full portion of the image here, so I'm going to go ahead and click on the left.
Notice that Elements creates the type layer for us,
so we're adding text on a separate layer, not on the background.
Okay, that's great, and we're not damaging the background at all,
working non-destructively.
All right, so let's go ahead and add a copyright symbol.
On the keyboard shortcut, to do that it's Option G, Alt G in Windows.
And then I'll type in my name.
All right, so a copyrighted watermark is what we're creating here.
Now, I said I wanted the text to fill up most of the image,
and you'll notice that it's not doing that, and that's because we chose 72 point.
That's not enough.
If we want to, we can click on the Move tool, click back on the Type tool,
and enter a different value in here to affect all of the text on that selected layer.
So, let's say maybe 150.
Type "Return" or "Enter" to apply that.
And that's actually perfect. That was a good guess.
Okay, you can also switch back to the Move tool.
Click and drag to reposition this inside of the image.
Now, if we wanted to, we could just reduce the opacity of this
and create a type of watermark effect.
I think a slicker way to do that, though, would be to change
the Blend mode for the selected type layer.
Blend mode list is up here at the top of the Layers panel.
It always defaults to normal, which means it's not applying any type of blending effect
with the image layers underneath.
However, if we switch this to something like, say, Soft Light,
which is a softer version of overlay,
it's going to blend in a little bit nicer with the background.
I kind of like that, and if we think that's still too much,
we want to bring it back, we can scroll back here.
We're using the scrubby slider, hovering over the opacity,
the word opacity, and dragging to the left and make it more subtle.
I think that's a little too subtle. How about 70%?
That looks pretty good to me.
Now again, if we want to adjust the position of this, all we have to do is click and drag
to move it with the layer or within the image.
Now, I want to rotate it, and I think the easiest way to do that is to go under Image,
Transform, Free Transform, and then if you hover over any corner,
you can just rotate it manually like so.
Just visually position it the way you like inside of the image.
We can apply that by clicking the green check mark,
and now we've added our watermark inside of the image.
So, what we learned here is that in order to create a watermark,
you have to work with the Type tool again in order to add your text.
Choose your type options, just like I showed you in the Adding Text movie.
After you add your type options, you can enter the text
into a type layer, which Elements creates for you.
You can then reduce the opacity of that layer once you have the text
positioned and sized the way you like.
Reduce the opacity of the layer in order to create a watermark effect,
or you can apply a Blend mode, and what we applied here was Soft Light.
And we worked with that in conjunction with a lower opacity
in order to screen this back in the image.
You can also rotate the text if you'd like
for your watermark using the Free Transform command.
