Applying Your Watermark To Your Image
Open up the image that you want to apply the watermark to
Go to EDIT / PASTE and paste your ellipsed watermark image into your main image
As you can see its too big, so what we have to do is resize it. Go to your toolbar and choose your Deform Tool
Then click on SCALE
Now, while holding down your shift key on your keyboard, grab the corner of the box and drag it down till you have a more suitable size ellipse
Now it fits the image much better as shown below
Next, go to FILTER / STYLIZE / EMBOSS
Apply the EMBOSS with the following settings
Here's where the magic starts !! Click on your Layers Tab, and where it shows Normal, click on the dropdown menu
Choose SOFT LIGHT
Now magically your ellipse is transparent.
Move it around over your image and see how it blends with any part of your image allowing the photo to show through
Now you can merge your layers as shown below, OR you can choose to change the way your watermark looks by following the next few steps
Click on your Deform Tool once more
Now drag one of your corners down, to give it a 'slant' Play with it till you are happy with it
When you're happy with how your watermark is placed, do one last LAYER / MERGE / FLATTEN
Now you have a Watermark that blends right in with the image, but yet makes the image less desirable for someone to use.
Be sure to save your watermark image to resuse over and over, as either a psd or a jpeg file
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial ! Happy Creating !
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