Watermarks Can Serve as a Reminder of Your Copyright and Can Be a Great DeterrentĪ watermark is a graphic that is added to an image to assert your copyright or ownership, typically by using photoshop or another online program to apply the mark. You don’t have to put a special warning on your images to receive such protection your art is copyrighted from the moment of creation. The good news is that in the United States and most western countries, a piece of art receives copyright protection the second you click the button on your camera, hit save in photoshop, or apply the last brush stroke on your canvas and upload an image of that painting to social media. Images Automatically Have Copyright Protection While watermarking can be a great deterrent, it’s not the same thing as a copyright, nor is it a substitute for officially obtaining copyright protection from the US Copyright Office. Understandably, artists have resorted to “watermarking” their images online to prevent others from stealing their work. Images are easy to steal, and many artists have had the unfortunate experience of seeing their work end up in places that they did not authorize or receive compensation for. Here's the logo I created.Artists of all types and media take a risk when showcasing their work on the internet. To add a watermark as a linked smart object, you'll first want to create your logo in a separate document. Let's see how it works!ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Creating the logo document If you edit the logo, the changes in that one file will be updated throughout all of your images.
You can save your logo as a separate file, and then link all of your images to that file. This makes linked smart objects perfect for things like watermarks. Multiple documents can all be linked to the same file, and any changes you make to that file will instantly appear in every document that links to it!
Rather than embedding their contents, a linked smart object simply links to an external file, like a separate Photoshop document. Any changes you made to your smart object in one document would not appear in any others.īut linked smart objects are different. This meant that there was no way to share a smart object between documents. Before that, the contents of a smart object were always embedded in the document. But in Photoshop CC, Adobe introduced a new type of smart object known as a linked smart object. Smart objects have been around since Photoshop CS2. Let's get started! What are linked smart objects? So to follow along, you'll need Photoshop CC and you'll want to make sure that your copy is up to date. In this tutorial, you'll learn not only how to add your logo or copyright information as a watermark to your images, but also how to make sure that any changes to it instantly update across all your images, by adding your watermark as a linked smart object in Photoshop! Linked smart objects are very powerful, but they're only available in Photoshop CC.
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