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this is going to look daunting but it really is straight forward, this method will enable you to watermark and save your images for web easily
You'll only need to do this full process the once after that it'll be simply cutting the watermark to the clipboard and setting the automation going.
1) Go to File > New, Make a document at 72dpi at the pixel size of your pictures your web images are
2) create your watermark and colour / place it where you want it to appear
3) create a new document 1 pixel by 1 pixel at 72dpi
4) drag the 1x1 pixel from this new document to your first document
5) turn off your background layer from the layers palate
6) pull the pixel to the top left corner where it should snap into place
7) turn the opacity of the pixel layer right down to 1%
(this pixel acts of a coordinate so that when its merged with your watermark layer then copied and pasted back in, it'll always appear in the correct position)
8) merge the watermark and pixel layer by selecting the merge visible option from the little arrow on the top left of the layers palate.
9) press ctrl+a to select all, than ctrl+c to copy the selection to the clipboard
save the watermark file as a psd for future use
10) Now you need to set up your action, go to window > actions to bring up the actions palate.
11) Open one of your photos (originals camera files), now press the record new action option, name it and choose a functionkey.
10) under edit image size, size the file to the desired web pixel size
11) press ctrl+v to paste the watermark in
12) go to file save for web and choose your quality options
13) click save and choose where you want it to be saved (the local side of website makes sense)
14) click file close and dont save the changes - you dont want to lose your originals!
15) press stop on the actions palate.
you should now have an action that at the press of a key puts a watermark on your images and saves them out for web into the correct location, the dogs danglies basically!
NB you'll need a different action for each different image size
16) As i mentioned you can automate the process so that you can watermark and save for web an entire folder of pictures.
17) Not all versions of photoshop have the automate option but hopefully yours has,
make sure the watermark is on your clipboard see step 9 above.
18) go to file automate batch, choose the action to use, the source and destination folders and press OK, it'll apply the action to every picture within the chosen folder.
19) go and make yourself a coffee whilst the computer does the hard work!!
hope this helps!
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