This tutorial is the 2nd method which I've decided works well for me...  Once again - I hope that you find it to be useful. Thanks for looking!

     Remember that with my first method, we created a tube to use in watermarking our image?  Well, this method is really very similar, but it makes use of layers. Create a new image about 150 X 150 with a transparent background, a resolution of 72 pixels/inch, and 16.7 million colors. It's going to be re-sized later, but you need to give yourself some room to work.

     Now you can choose to create a similarly shaped watermark as we did in the first tutorial, or go with something a little less obvious this time. For this tutorial, I'm going to show you 3 examples...  Of course you are free to choose all - or none - of them.  =)

     If black (#000000) isn't already set as the foreground color, you should do that now.  You should also set the background to white (#FFFFFF).  Then select the 'Flood Fill' tool and flood the entire area with white.  Now choose the 'Preset Shapes' tool (if you've decided to go with the shaped watermark) and select the octagon with the following settings: stroked, a line width of 3; and the anti-alias box should be checked.  Go ahead and draw your octagon shape to nearly fill the image window. I've made mine mostly horizontal, but if you choose to make yours more vertical, that's fine too.

     Making sure that you keep your foreground color set to black (#000000), go ahead and add your desired text to the octagon and center it up the way you want it. If you'd like to add any other images to your octagon (like ding fonts or whatever), this is the time to do it...

     Alright, now we are going to emboss the entire image.  Click on 'Image' and then go down almost to the bottom of the list and click on 'Other'.  In the resulting new drop-down list, then you need to click on 'Emboss'.

     You should now have an image that looks similar to this:

     Still with me??!  =)  Good.  Now you need to save this image and keep it in a convenient place.  In the example which I used above, saving the image in jpg format yielded a 10kB file.  Saving it in gif format yielded only a 3.5 kB file.  (At the end of this tutorial, there is a footnote which explains yet another option ~ to tube this image as well.)

     Ready to apply this watermark to your image? Great! Just click here when you're ready to move on.

This tutorial was created on 9/8/00.

Disclaimer(s):
The antique photo used in this tutorial is a royalty free image obtained from http://www.freeimages.com. I am not in any way associated with them; I just chose this as a random image to work with.

This tutorial was written ENTIRELY by me. Should it happen to resemble any other written tutorial, it is purely a coincidence. (I'm sure that there are only so many ways to create a watermark...) Any comments, suggestions, etc. should be directed to me at gigipo@hotmail.com. Thank-you.