In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how you can create a signature watermark for your photos – for free. Plus, I’ll give you what I think are the ten best signature fonts to use for this task. This is a great way to create a logo for your photography. I’ll be showing you how to do it in Photoshop but you can use any programme that uses layers. I’ll then show you a much more professional way to create signature watermarks by using Lightroom and attaching it to a batch of images at once.
Not only is this really easy to do, it will instantly make your photos more professional! We hope you enjoy it 😊
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Create a signature logo for photography
The beauty of creating your own watermarks is that you can pick your own font, own style, own colour and basically you can make it unique to you. Here’s an example:
Signature logo example 1
Signature logo example 2
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What you need to create a free photography logo
In this tutorial I show you how to do it in two different ways. One easy way is to use photoshop, but you can use any image program as long as you can use layers. The other way I'm going to show you is a much more professional way where you can apply a watermark logo to a batch of your photography really quickly.
Fonts
The first thing that you're going to need is some signature fonts. Now don't worry, I’ve scoured the Internet and found the 10 best signature fonts for free. Simply get these by completing the form at the top of this page. You’ll need to download the fonts you like and install them into your computer first. If you don't know how to install fonts just google it, it's a really easy process.
Example of signature font
Create a standard size for your photography logo
You’ll need to make the logo large enough to fit your photography so it doesn’t pixelate. In Photoshop go to file > New and create a new document 1920px wide and 1080px high (normal FHD screen). Tick off artboard > choose black as a background > click create. A blank black document will open.
Create your signature logo
Now what we need to do is create our signature watermark. Select the Text tool and select white as your colour (select a different colour if you want a different colour logo). Then type your name and photography underneath it. Select the text and change the font to the ones you want > Click the tick at the top to apply that. Then resize the text using the Free Transform tool and move it to fit snuggly inside the document.
Convert logo to a PNG
A PNG is an image format that can be saved with transparent backgrounds. We now have to create a transparent background then save it as a PNG. This way we can then drag and drop the signature logo onto any picture really easily.
In the layer’s palette there's a lock symbol next to the background layer. Click on that lock symbol and drag it into the bin. That turns it into a layer. Hide this layer by clicking the eye symbol next to it.
Go to File > Save As > from the drop-down menu select PNG > save it in a location for easy access later > a box will appear, select save as largest file size > click OK
Now you've just created a PNG which is effectively an image with a transparent background. You now just drag that image into any other picture and resize and move it to suit – Easy!
Lightroom
The other way to add signature logo is in Lightroom. In Lightroom you can add a watermark to a batch of pictures and export them all at once using presets. It’s a brilliant program to use for this because it speeds up what you do and makes your work look much more professional.
If you would like to learn how to use lightroom we do have an in depth Lightroom course which will tell you how to do this and many other things to improve your photography. Learn lightroom and become a pro at signature watermarks and more, simply click here
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