You can use the power of Adobe Photoshop "Actions" to easily watermark your images. I am going to show you how in this step by step article. You may want to refer to this article first with some more information on copyrighting, watermarking and deterring image theft.
Actions are like macros. You record a sequence of events that do a certain task or tasks and you can play them back multiple times. This allows you to do some very powerful things.
First of all, make sure your "Actions" palette is open. If it is not, go to the "Window" menu and choose "Actions."
Adobe Photoshop comes with some pre made actions, such as the "Aged Photo" action, which does just what you think it would do. It makes your photos look "aged".
You can skip this step if you know how actions work. Go ahead and select the "Aged Photo" action under the Image Effects set in the actions palette. Click on the arrow by "Image Effects" to open a menu of actions. Then left click on the "Aged Photo" action and click the play button at the bottom of the palette. It looks like the symbol for play on your VCR. After you hit the play button, Photoshop will run through a bunch of events that will make your photo look "aged." Now undo the changes in the History palette or revert to your saved file by going to the "File" menu and scrolling down to "Revert" and selecting it. The purpose of this exercise was to familiarize yourself with what actions do and how to use them.
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