After having a picture stolen the other day, and a few mates now asking for photos of them that I took whilst out riding a few days back (which I'm more than willing to give to them, but I'd like some credit from it ), I want to get a smallish watermark, nothing fancy, just my name or something along the bottom. I'd like to be able to save the watermark to reproduce it, but I can't see a way of doing it in photoshop?
I take it I'd need to save it as a jpeg then insert it later, but the only program I can think of for doing that is Paint! And even then I think I would have a gash white box behind the text.
If anyone could give me some help t'would be great.

Cheers in advance.
Ben.

you can do it in photoshop just create a tx layer and write what ever you want. then you have a few choices on how to make it translucent, easiest would be just change the opacity of that layer. there are ways of automating it using actions and droplets but would be hard to describe on here. have a look online for a tutorial on watermarking.

photomarks are really bloody annoying tho. to minimize on the scrots just get some private hosting (off coff me coff) and set your directories to block any external link other than sites you set, and then just add your name to the bottom left or something of the pic... water marks look whack on awesome pics and if you put them on a crap pic you look like a foo.

my 2 cents

why do you care if your not making a profit off them?
they didnt take the pic, they cant take the pic, your pic, your rights.... if you see it comercially used then pounce like a beeatch! and you'll get monies but at least lurer them in with no water marks to start with and let the lil fankids have there minute

^ its not worth the effort for that dude some guy will just black that out in seconds

You never know, and someone stole your other photo so better be safe than sorry

Just stick it somewere it can't be cropped out or just touching the rider/bike

Do you mean for magazines or individuals, ie racers etc?

See, the problem with that is that it's not a deterrent anyway - I know an agency photographer who used to do that, looked really good, but he had to switch back as it wasn't working. If it's so subtle, then it can be easily photoshopped out.

I rarely put bulk uploads of non-pro race images on line these days, too much hassle for minimal reward.