- [Instructor] We've finished editing our photos,
so now we're ready to export them to be shared by email
or uploaded to social media.
But before we export,
it's a good idea to set up a watermark.
A watermark is a way to visually sign or brand your photos.
Lightroom Classic offers two types of watermarks,
text or graphic.
We'll create one of each and see how they look
when applied to an exported image.
I've selected the first photo
that we edited back in Chapter Six, Basic Editing,
but it really doesn't matter which photo you have selected.
I'll go up to the menu of Lightroom Classic
and find Edit Watermarks here.
If you're on a Windows machine,
you'll find that under the Edit menu,
and it doesn't matter if you're in the Library module
or the Develop module.
Here in the watermark editor, by default,
we're going to create a watermark style of text,
and it's placed by username
in the lower left-hand corner of the image.
I can type my full name in this field here,
and I can resize it by just grabbing
and dragging out the corner.
It can't be manually repositioned on the image here, though.
We'll get to that in a second.
We have to do that over here on this side.
The first thing I want to do is change the font
because Myriad Web Pro is really boring.
I've found a nice script font at Adobe Fonts,
so I recommend checking out the fontsadobe.com
and finding a nice script that you like and turning it on,
and then you can use it for a watermark in Lightroom.
So that looks good, much better than Myriad Pro.
There's some other settings here we can go through.
By default, there's a shadow.
You could turn the shadow on or off.
I kind like the shadow.
Sometimes I take the offset down a little bit though.
And then down here under Watermark Effects,
I like to make the opacity just a little bit lighter
so that it'll show through to the photo.
Here, with the size, you can scale it as well,
so it's the same as dragging on it here.
Where the anchor point is,
this is how we move the position of it.
If I click in the lower-right corner,
it anchors it to the lower-right corner of the photo.
But notice it's sitting right on the edge,
and that's what the inset value is for.
So if I slide the horizontal inset over to the right
a little bit, it'll create some space on that edge.
So now we're ready to save this as a preset
so we can apply it to our exported photos.
And I like to give really descriptive names
because I have a handful of these watermarks.
So we'll call this lower right white signature,
whatever you want to call it,
so that you know what it is when you're selecting it.
And we'll say Create.
Let's go back and do that one more time.
Lightroom Classic or Edit.
Come down to Edit Watermarks.
And this time, we'll create a graphic style.
Now to create a graphic style watermark,
you have to have already created the graphic,
and I have an example graphic here that I've created.
When I click on Graphic,
it's going to go out to my computer and look for the file.
So I have put that file on my external Photos drive.
I'll select it here, choose it,
and it placed it really small down here in the corner.
So let's grab on it and scale it up.
And then notice that with the graphic style,
you don't have a lot of the same options
that you have with the text style.
You can take the opacity down,
but I already put some opacity into the graphic.
So a graphic style watermark can have multiple colors
and it can have opacity.
And it's best that you save the file as a PNG file
because PNG can also have transparency.
If you were to have saved the graphic as a JPEG,
there would just be a white block behind it,
and that wouldn't look so good.
So let's just do something a little bold here
and put the watermark nice and big
right in the center of the photo,
and we'll click Save and we'll call this the logo.
I'll call it my name and logo and create this.
If you have a logo for your business,
creating a graphic watermark is a good way
to brand your photos.
And now that we've created some watermark presets,
we're ready to export.
Make sure to create a custom watermark for yourself too,
whether it's the text or graphic style.
Watermarking may help deter others
from taking your photos for their own use.