affinity photo Affinity Photo Watermarks

[MikeMcE]

Always used a simple homade brush for watermarking. Well thats a waste of time, but did work for me. 

I watched a simple tutorial on other methods, and discovered what I needed was the Pattern tool. Fought with layers and when I rasterized. 

well it really wasn't that bad here's a sample over one of my flowers.

I've switched over to Flickr from Photobucket.

 

 

Edited April 11 by MikeMcE
Used Flicker to post

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Mike.

1 hour ago, MikeMcE said:

Always used a simple [homemade] brush for watermarking. Well thats a waste of time, but did work for me.

Hardly a waste of time if it did what you needed it to do!

1 hour ago, MikeMcE said:

well it really wasn't that bad here's a sample over one of my flowers.

Not bad at all, although I have to wonder why the copyright symbol © is superscripted like that in the ITC Bradley Hand font.

1 hour ago, MikeMcE said:

I've switched over to Flicker from Photobucket.

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Flickr, not Flicker
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Nice Strelitzia, by the way.

[MikeMcE]

I suspect the © was streched when I was sizing letters. Part of the critical eye needed for perfection.

I changed to Flickr!

[SrPx]

14 hours ago, Alfred said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Mike.

Hardly a waste of time if it did what you needed it to do!

Not bad at all, although I have to wonder why the copyright symbol © is superscripted like that in the ITC Bradley Hand font.

<pedantry>
Flickr, not Flicker
</pedantry>

Nice Strelitzia, by the way.

Good catch, Alfrd.   

😛 

[Archangel]

If you have the G'MIC extension plugin for Affinity Photo there is an automatic watermark script you can utilize which is included in the tool set. @MikeMcE

Not many font choices though. Maybe someone should write a macro for Affinity Photo which does something similar.

An example of mine is included.

[MikeMcE]

Maybe someone should write a macro for Affinity Photo which does something similar.

 

Odd you mentioned that. The You Tube video by Olivio did just that in the second half of his video. 

If I had the G'MIC extension, I wouldn't have learned how easy it is to make.

[Ash Eldritch]

Perhaps I'm missing the point here but a brush/pattern tool implies having to spend time adding those watermarks. Even if it's a short amount of time wouldn't it be more productive to create a watermarked file that could be imported and overlayed, on any piece of work, in seconds? 🤔

[GarryP]

There’s no need to ‘faff around’ with brushes and/or macros to get a simple re-usable watermark.

You can create one quickly with a Rectangle, some Artistic Text, Photo’s Pattern Layer functionality and Assets.

See attached video for a quick run-through.

Note: I feel sure that this isn’t the first time this technique has been posted but no-one else in this thread has posted any links to the tutorials they mentioned/used, or given a run-down of what they did, which makes it difficult for anyone reading this thread to know what the possibilities are.

[MikeMcE]

Thank You GaryP! 
that’s exactly how I did this.  As a newbie here, I didn’t know if posting a video or link was proper here. this also shows how to batch them also.
 

 

[GarryP]

Posting links, videos, images and documents (etc.) is normally fine as long as the material is relevant to the thread and complies with the forum rules and guidelines.

If a member of staff thinks that there’s a problem with what you have posted then they might remove it, and tell you why they have done so, but that’s quite rare.