walter628 Loc: tahlequah, ok

I am wanting find a program to watermark photos and was told the lr did this. Now I have all of the above on my computer and do not where to go from here. Do we have some lr experts on here? Appreciate any help.

walter628 Loc: tahlequah, ok

I might add that Adobe is totally useless as far customer support is concerned.

jtlareau Loc: Hurst, TX (originally Toledo, OH)

Hi walter628,

You might want to go to the Search function (at the top of the UHH newsletter) and search for Watermarks. There is a lot of discussion and many pointers to How-To videos on creating watermarks. Good luck.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I have found their customer support very helpful. Key is to contact when they aren't busy and I found it works better if you start through live chat then the tech can get your phone # to call you, set up remote control to trouble shoot and fix etc.

But, here is a sample of doing a watermark two ways, with PS and through LR Export.
The rather awful photo is one I did accidentally while using my camera and lens to see what was flying over and pushed the shutter past the 1/2 way focus point. An airfield 10 miles straight north of my house has a museum and large collection of flying "war birds" and they seem to use my neighborhood as a pivot point because of the large number of pools that make great bright blue landmarks. On or near holidays/air shows the war birds and others often fly over going to and from or practicing.

PS: from LR > Photo > Edit In > Photoshop
a. eye dropper tool and select a color (I use a color from within the image)
b. text tool - pick a font - pick a size - place the cursor where you want it to go (you can move it around before you are done) - type what you want
(copyright symbol is Alt0169) - save back to LR or export, I save so I have a file copy of the watermarked image. That one is in the lower right corner.
LR: select your image and File > export > make selections such as destination, name, format, color space and then scroll down and check watermark - then at the bottom of the saved water marks (if you have any) select "edit watermark". Under Text Options - pick a Font - pick a style - align - color. then below that is Shadow - if you check it pick options for the shadow - below that pick Opacity, size and Anchor position. I just used the word copyright here.
Now click "Save" (it will ask you to name it) and back at the Export screen click export. Go to your location and look at the result (I save to desktop then move it to a file or delete it later.) At each stage you need to wait for all processing, saving etc to finish. Here I did a large semi-transparent mark over the center of the image. I could have made it like the PS mark in any of 10 locations on the image.

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rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

The LR watermark function is in the export module.
It is very limited and requires you to create a different watermark for each location on the image you want to place a watermark.
IE, one for lower right, one for lower left, etc.
I use Photoshop for watermarks. Do a search in YouTube for 'Photoshop watermark brush'.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

???

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

That is what I do

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

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Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

You can create an export preset in LR to add a watermark.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

While lightroom's watermarking feature are a little limited and may not meet your needs, other than seeking help from Adobe did you try Googling it as I just did? I found dozens of references on how to do it, including YouTube videos, in under 10 seconds.

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

Try this link to adobe.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

OK, this is good to know. Great tip

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

What I hear you saying is that you want someone here to hand walk you through the procedure. They do things like that on youtube if you'll just search something like Watermarking in Lightroom Classic. You might even use the search feature here. If I seem snippy I apologize. I just get tired of people not trying to help themselves.

wds0410 Loc: Nunya

Seems like that is the raison d'etre for this forum.

scsdesphotography Loc: Southeastern Michigan

Walter628. I am clueless as to why Adobe makes it so complicated to a add a copyright (watermark) to your images in LR and PS. In my opinion the option to do this in Elements is worth the price of the program. In Elements go to Edit>Process Multiple Files. Under "Labels" you can easily add a watermark, select the font, the position, the color and opacity of the text. Hey Adobe, this is not a trivial, I only do this once in a while action, I put a copyright watermark on everyone of my images! Your professional tools should make it at least as easy as Elements, duh!