It appears as a light smudge near the center of the rose. I chose an opacity of 25% on the following photo so you can barely see it. ![]() Go to the properties panel under Opacity and using the scroll bar keep scrolling down until the text is barely noticeable (you want it noticeable enough so you will be able to spot it yourself incase you're searching for your images that have been copied). Now lighten the color of the text so it's barely noticeable. Place it in the main part of the image or someone may be able to crop it out (see image below). It will show up better if you have a very similar color underneath the watermark. Now click on the watermark again and move it where you think it will look best. If there are letters above click on the blue highlight button on upper right and move that to the left and down until the upper letters disappear. Click on the black circle and move it to the lower left of the rectangle so the copyright symbol appears first. You can adjust where the text is placed with the pointer tool. Notice it looks distorted (repeating copyright text and off center), however, we'll fix that in the next steps. Click on it and it will apply the watermark to your image. It will bring up the pattern you save earlier. With the rounded rectangle box still highlighted, go to the properties panel and under "choose fill" click on the drop down box and scroll down and choose "pattern". Place the rectangle where the text will be mostly the same color as the image or some of the letters will be darker than others. It will pick up the last background color you used but ignore this as it will disappear later. Make a rectangle about the size of the watermark with the rounded rectangle tool. How to Add the Watermark to an Image or Photo You have to restart Fireworks before the watermark will be available to apply to an image. Also save a copy in your documents folder in case you ever have to reinstall Fireworks.Īpplications/Adobe Fireworks/Configuration/Patterns/watermark1.png Save the watermark image in: Applications/Adobe Fireworks/Configuration/Patterns. If you put "watermark" in front of the file name they will all be in one place after you save the files. Name the file with watermark-NameGoesHere.png. ![]() Save the image using "Save As" (not export) so it will be saved as an editable png file. Crop the image so it's slightly bigger than the text. Type in the text (usually the business name or domain) with the copyright symbol which can be found under Window/Others/Special Characters). Choose a color similar to a part of the image, either slightly lighter or darker, depending on the background). Type in the copyright name: Use the text tool to mark the spot on the image where you want the text to appear and indicate the font name, size and color in properties panel (I used Palatino, 16px and med gray).
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