Watermarking small image relatively to dimensions

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Kara_Smith
Jan 19, 2009
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I have a series of photographs that vary between horizontal and vertical orientation (however, all the vertical images share the same dimensions, and the horizontals also share the same dimensions).

The first thing I want to do, using Actions, is to insert a black bar along the bottom edge of each image (approx. 50px-75px in height) with an opacity set to 52%.

Then, I would like to insert my watermark – ideally, in the bottom right-hand corner of each image (therefore, within the black bar) with a slight margin between the right edge and the bottom edge of the image.

For the watermark, I have a single-layered PSD image (with a transparent background).

I have attempted a couple of methods (having browsed various related forums): firstly, changing the Units & Measures Preferences to ‘percent’ rather than ‘cm’; but this means that the black bar changes height, and the spacing between the bottom edge of the image and the logo changes between vertical and horizontal.

I have also attempted the ‘Layer > Align’ function, but this command is greyed out for me, and so I cannot use it. I have attempted this feature after both Placing, and Copying and Pasting, my logo image into the new file.

If anybody could offer a suggestion for both these issues, I would be very grateful!

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Mylenium
Jan 20, 2009
Couldn’t you just pack your stuff into a group and move that group over to the images in question? It could even contain a dummy layer for the alignment stuff – you can make it invisible or change its layer blend options so it effectively is transparent…

Mylenium
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Sandy Birrell
Jan 20, 2009
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I have a series of photographs that vary between horizontal and vertical orientation (however, all the vertical images share the same dimensions, and the horizontals also share the same dimensions).

This works.

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/BrandingSM.mov



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Anthony.Ralph
Jan 20, 2009
Check out Russell Brown’s site <http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html>

….and scroll down to the CS2 section to a tutorial called "Digital Watermark Branding". There is a movie and a sample action there. It may well be what you are looking for.

Anthony.

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