Hi everyone, in this video, see down here, added a watermark to my image...

you can add your name, just plain old text...

or you can do what I did here, and add our graphic, in my case, the logo...

all right, so this is my image, I really want to get rid of these here...

I'm going to do that with a healing brush in a little bit on this course...

remind me to come back and fix this one.

So to add the watermark, is under 'Share', go to 'Custom Settings'...

there's an option in here called 'Include Watermark'...

and it appears down the bottom here...

if you're like mine, and it's doing some weird stuff...

where it's got that %20 in here, you can get rid of it in two ways...

you can do it in here...

and I'm going to say...

actually, I don't want the %20, thank you, very much, there you go.

You can pick a font, I'm not going to go through all of this...

it's all pretty normal...

drop shadow, you want to paint at the top or the bottom left, or in the middle...

size wise, up to you, and the opacity, how see through it is...

if you've got it on the left you can have like offsets to push it left and right...

so I'll let you mess around with those...

double click them to get them back to normal, so that's how to add text to it...

add a graphic, you can click to this tab here, 'Add Graphic'...

go and find a graphic, I have got something, you wait right there.

All right, so here's my business logo, I have got...

like it'll only import, it'll say that jpegs or pngs, it's up to you...

jpegs, I don't have any transparency, so I'm using a PNG here...

and I'm going to use this one here, not even sure, let's click 'Choose'...

you can see it down there, I'll remove the opacity...

nope, add the opacity back in.

So pngs allow for transparency, a jpeg will be a nice cube...

it depends on how you're saving your logo, or you might just use text...

you've got similar settings here for the image as well...

I'm going to lower the opacity...

I'm going to hit 'Done'...

and as long as that is ticked on now it will include watermarks...

whenever I'm doing exports, including my little sweet shortcut...

'Command E', or 'Ctrl E' on a PC...

let's do that one, where is it going to go in here, let's have a look...

here it is, at the top, there's my little watermark...

oh, fancy, I feel like a Pro photographer...

when you're adding copyrighted stuff.

Now why do people add watermarks?

For, if you're professional it's a great way of being able to add...

you add watermarks, send the client proofs...

and then they need to pay you before the watermarks come off...

that's the unwritten rule...

like, "Hey, can I get, can I get a..."

great, let's get these ones...

can I get them without the watermark for a new client at least?

It can be a conversation around making sure your invoice gets paid...

"Hey, I know you're great, but in the past of, you know, not being paid...

so I just keep my watermarks on there until the invoice is paid...

I know it's not you, I hope you understand"...

that's the kind of conversation often you have to have with a new client...

and then once you've worked with them, or you trust them...

you can be sending stuff without watermarks.

It's also good for social media, to get your name out there as a photographer...

and also just to be credited for work that you've done...

because the internet has the habit of spreading things around...

and you getting left out of the conversation...

so watermarks are good that way, your watermark could be a cool...

like little signature that you've drawn in something, and put down the bottom there...

it's an artistic kind of stamp to it...

but yeah, you know, what a watermark is...

quit talking, Dan, move on to the next video...

Roger, I'll see you in the next video.