Logo stamping in photoshop

[olli.pekonen]

Every now and then I have to add a logo (a GIF image) to several

pictures in a folder.

 

a) The pictures can be either landscape or portrait. The size of the

images is the same (or at least similar)

 

b) the position should be the lower left hand side of the image

 

 

How to automate this best in Photoshop CS? I gather that I have to

do an "Action" of this, but what are the necessary steps? I'm sure

some Photoshop guru can lay this out in a jiffy...

[eric_konieczny]

I have worked and reworked my Copyright watermark to make it useful for copyright protection but not abtrusive.

 

Here are two tutorials, on how to make good watermarks. I have used both methods.

 

http://www.earwaks.com/forum/fpost19939.html

 

http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewtechnique.cfm?recid=339

[jim mucklin]

In ps7 I have created a "new brush" which can be anything from a gif, copyright, scan signature,etc. you can include this in your action.

[perfect_exposure]

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I have placed an action to do what you want at the following link:

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<a href="http://www.visualperception.f2s.com/photoshop">Add Logo Action</a>

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Instructions are there as well.

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[kingsley]

I want to figure it out too. I am thinking use photoshop script to do this job.

Can anyone share your action with us?

[jarno_lyytinen]

Here is a neat trick that allows you to paste the logo on the excact spot where it is in the original 'logo-frame' without using any alignment commands.

 

Because the Action's Paste command centers the logo, before selecting the *.png logo canvas, expnd that canvas for example from 300x400 to 302x402, then select all, stroke with some color (one pixel, center).

 

Then do Edit - Copy. When you now move over to the target *.jpg file you are about to stamp, and perform Edit - Paste, Photoshop places the frame leaving left and top edges one pixel stroke visible. Just use Move tool one pixel up and left and voil�, you stamped the logo excactly on the same spot where it is on the original *png (provided that the logo there is on the same-size .png than target files and they are of same size).

 

Flatten and proceed with the same commands as in the links provided.

 

-Jarno Lyytinen, Helsinki