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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.

To do this in Photoshop, go to Image > Resize > Canvas Size, and add the required white space. Then use the Text tool to add your details, or simply paste in your logo. Try to use small or muted writing to avoid a distracting burst of contrast at the fringe of your photo.

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.

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.

If you save your images in high-quality PNG format, you can easily create a copyright watermark in PNG format for repeated use on your copyrighted images. Once you create the watermark, you can overlay it on top of your images as a new layer.

The simplest way to tone down your watermark is to keep your logo compact, and set the opacity to below 50% ? look under the Layers palette in Photoshop for the relevant slider. This allows some of the underlying image to seep through, while maintaining a clear mark.

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.