This is a first for my humble website Fire The Cannon, but it’s something I feel I should share with the world. I have been looking for how to do this for quite some time. Perhaps it’s my crappy Google search skills, or it’s just not out there. I found many ways to batch edit pictures, many ways to watermark images but none that explained very clearly how to add a batch watermarking action to Photoshop CS3. I scrounged the internet for quite some time to put together my very own action script and believe it or not I accomplished it. So below, I’m trying another first, is my screencast of how to do this with step by step directions to follow incase the video doesn’t help. Please do watch and let me know if this works for you, or if you know a better way! Thank you!

Alright this will easily and quickly let you add a watermark image to the lower right hand corner of your images. It can actually be placed anywhere that you want it as you will see in the screencast. So watch and let me know what you think. Thanks everyone!

Here is a list of how to do the same thing in the video. Make sure to hit record after step one…

 

#1 - Open the flyout action menu, create a set and name it. Then create an action and name it. From there hit record at the bottom of the action pallette.

#2 - Go to file, automate, then click fit image. choose 1200 x 1200 or any numbers just be consistent.

#3 - Go to image, image size. Make sure you deselect Resample. Change the resolution to 100 .

#4 - Create a new layer to put the watermark image on.

#5 - Go to file then place. Pick the watermark you want to paste (preferrably in a .PNG)

#6 - Put image in top left corner. The top left corner is the same in both vertical and horizontal pictures

#7 - Go to select, then select all. Then go to layers, align layers to selection. Pick bottom edges first. Go to the layers menu again, align layers to selection. Then pick right edges this time. Finally go to select and deselect

#8 - Go to edit, free transform and place and size your image where you want it in bottom right edge. To size your image and constrain proportions hold shift and click and drag on the corners. Hit enter when done.

#9 - Hit your layers flyout and choose flatten. Then file, save as a JPEG at %50 to make it easy to post to Flickr or send to clients. You’re almost done, make sure to hit stop at the bottom of the actions pallette to tell it to stop recording your actions.

That concludes building the script. You can now apply it to a single image, a few images, or if you want to automate that script on a whole folder of images follow below.

#10 - Go to file, automate, and choose batch.

#11 - Pick your set and action you just created, make sure to choose the override save as commands.

#12 - Choose the folders where the images are that need watermarked and then where you want those watermarked images to be saved to. 

#13 - Hit OK! and watch as it adds your watermark to all your images.

I hope this makes sense and no one has trouble following these steps. Remember this is my first time trying this out. Let me know how it goes for you and if you have trouble getting it to work right. Here is a image I applied the script to.

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