amfoto1 wrote:
It's tricky to create a watermark that will work on a wide variety of images, to be automatically added by Lightroom.
Watermarks cannot be "created" in LR. There may be some preset ones, but they will no doubt be "generic".
Use some other program to create the watermark. I used Photoshop (but have used other programs in the past). I assume you don't have Photoshop, since you went online to create your watermarks.
Lightroom can scale the size of the watermark to match each image... so make the watermark fairly large (if I recall correctly, I used 60 pt type).
I use a fairly bold, easy to read type face and colored it gray. Next I outlined it in white (which is easily done in "Layer styles" in Photoshop... if using another program to create the watermark, you'll have to figure it out). This way the watermark will be visible and readable on virtually any image.... whether light toned or dark toned. I leave the original watermark with no reduction in transparency, but later will set transparency in Lightroom.
Then it's just a matter of "flattening" any layers and saving the image as a "PNG" file.
The "PNG" file type is important if you want the watermark to have a transparent background, so that only the type shows up on your images when Lightroom adds it. JPGs and GIFs cannot have a transparent background, so will look like a strip of tape with the type on it, laid on your image.
Once the watermark is ready to use and has been saved somewhere, you probably already know you next need to tell LR where it is. You can have multiple watermarks for different purposes. LR will store a list of them, which you can change manually prior to exporting your images (I store a "watermark" and a "signature", which I use for different purposes).
Here are examples (Note: in this case, the signature was applied manually using Photoshop, but it's largely the same when LR automatically adds it to each of a batch of images):
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Thank you so much, that was great info.