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Don't make your watermark too small. It's much better to re-size scaling down than it is to scale up. If it's too small and you have to scale it up, you will lose clarity and quality. Anywhere between 500 and 1000 pixels wide will work for most image sizes.

Start with a large canvas, like 1920x1080. With that, not only will it work digitally, but you can make the watermark at a high resolution so you can print it in a large size without pixelation, if necessary. Add your signature, text, or logo.

To change the look of a watermark, replace it with a new one. Select Design > Watermark. Select Text, and enter your text watermark. Try selecting Font Color or Transparency. Select OK.

Keeping your watermark in the corner with the opacity set to around 50% or less is a good idea. The most important thing to notice is that it looks professional. Watermarks distract when they're too bold, but also when they look shabby and as if they were made using Microsoft Paint.

Watermarks should be visible enough to provide adequate protection against image theft, but if they're too prominent they'll obscure too much of the image for it to be appreciated at all. Here, prominence is determined through a combination of frame coverage, opacity and style.

Best Practices for Using a Watermark Keep your watermark simple and monochromatic. Keep it as small as possible while being legible. Use a vertical watermark. Put your watermark on the edge of the photo. At the end of the day, the decision to watermark or not is up to you.

Generally, a watermark should: Be small and monochromatic ? or have very little color.Be placed in a descreet area of the image that does not interfere with the view of the image, but will make it more difficult to remove or clone out. Have limited text.

What is a watermark? Originally a watermark is a more or less transparent image or text that has been applied to a piece of paper, another image to either protect the original image, or to make it harder to copy the item e.g. money watermarks or stamp watermarks.

How to make a watermark in 5 easy steps Open your logo, or make one with graphics and/or text. Create a transparent background for your watermark. Add the watermark image on top of a photo. Use the Fade slider to adjust the watermark's transparency.

Ideally, the watermark should be visible without detracting attention away from the contents of the image itself. For that reason, it's better to use a watermark that's free of any color or anything else that's too eye-catching.