The document is a step-by-step guide on how to create a watermark effect in Photoshop for protecting photographs. It provides detailed instructions on creating a new document, entering copyright information, rotating text, and applying it as a pattern with reduced opacity. The tutorial also encourages visiting their website for more photography editing tips and resources.

1. HOW TO CREATE
WATERMARK EFFECT

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3. We'll use this photo as our example:

4. Let's say this was a photo I took for a client and I want to show it to them as a proof.
Before I go showing it to them or anyone else, I'm going to first take a couple of minutes
and add my copyright information as a watermark across the image. Let's get started!

5. Step 1:
Open A New Blank Document With A Transparent Background

6. Go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and select New... to bring up the New
Document dialog box. I'm going to enter 6 inches for the width, 4 inches for the height,
and300 pixels/inch for the resolution. For Background Contents, make sure you set it to
Transparent by clicking on the down-pointing arrow and selecting it from the list:

7. Click OK, and the new blank document appears:

8. The new blank document with a transparent background.

9. Step 2:
Type Your Copyright Information
Grab your Type tool from the Tools palette or by pressing T on your keyboard. Then press
D on your keyboard to set black as your foreground color if it isn't already, and enter your
copyright information.
To access the copyright symbol "©", press Option-G on a Mac, or hold down the Alt key
on Windows and enter 0169 on the numeric keypad. I'll enter "© 2007 Patterson
Photography":

10. Typing my copyright information.

11. Step 3:
Rotate The Text With Free Transform
The copyright watermark tends to look better with the text rotated a bit, so once you've
entered your text, press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to bring up the Free
Transform handles around your text, then place your mouse cursor just outside one of the
corner handles and drag left or right with your mouse to rotate the text. Hold down
the Shift key as you drag to rotate in nice, even increments:

12. Rotate the text with Photoshop's Free Transform command.
Press Enter (Win) or Return (Mac) to apply the rotation when you're done.

13. Step 4:
Trim The Document Around The Text
Go up to the Image menu next and select Trim. This brings up the Trim
dialog box. We want to trim away all the extra space around the text, and since
all the extra space is made up of transparent pixels, select the first option at the
top of the Trim dialog box, Transparent Pixels:

14. Photoshop's "Trim" dialog box.

15. Click OK, and Photoshop trims away all the extra space around the text:
The extra space around the text is now gone.

16. Step 5:
Define The Text As A Pattern
Go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and select Define Pattern. We're going to
create a pattern out of our copyright information. The Pattern Name dialog box appears
Photoshop's "Pattern Name" dialog box.
Name your new pattern "copyright" and then click OK.

17. Step 6:
Close The Copyright Document
We've done everything we need to do with our copyright document, so go ahead and close
out of it at this point, leaving just your original image open on the screen.

18. Step 7:
Add A New Layer In The Original Image Document
Back in our original image document, we currently have one layer, the Background layer,
which contains our image. We don't want to add our copyright information directly to the
Background layer, so either click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers
palette or use the keyboard
shortcut Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N (Win)/ Shift+Command+Option+N (Mac) to create a new
layer above the Background layer, which Photoshop names "Layer 1":

19. Click the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette or use the keyboard
shortcut to add a new layer above the Background layer.

20. Step 8:
Fill The New Layer With The Copyright Pattern
With our new layer selected in the Layers palette, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the
screen and select Fill, which brings up the Fill dialog box. For "Contents", click on the
down-pointing arrow and select Pattern from the list:

21. Choose "Pattern" as the Fill contents.

22. Then, with Pattern selected, click on the little thumbnail image beside the
words Custom Pattern and then choose your copyright pattern from the list that
appears. It will be the last pattern at the bottom:
Choose your copyright pattern from the list of custom patterns.

23. Click OK, and your new layer is filled with a repeating pattern of your copyright
information:

24. Step 9:
Change The Blend Mode To "Overlay" and Lower The Opacity
The only problem now is that the text is too prominent. It's blocking much of the image
from view. To fix that, with the new layer selected, go up to the layer blend mode options
in the top left of the Layers palette, click on the down-pointing arrow beside the word
"Normal" and select Overlay from the list. Then move over to the Opacity option beside it
and reduce the opacity as needed. I'm going to lower mine to 50%:

25. Change the blend mode to "Overlay" and lower the blend mode as needed.

26. And here's my final result:
The final result with the copyright watermark.

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