Copyrighting My Images in PS
 

Can anyone tell me how to add a copyright to my images in PS? Also, does this have to be done per image or can I set it to put one one automatically?

Look up watermarking, there should be lots of tutorials on it. There may be on here, I think there was on PR before the switch.

There is a great photoshop plugin which will watermark images for you. I use it to watermark up to 700 photos per american football match I cover. It's made by one of the photoshop gurus, Russell Brown, I think his name is, but currently at work so no access to my Photoshop at moment

Hi DD,

If you mean putting a copyright notice in the meta data of the image so it shows in the EXIF information, but doesn't show anything across the image itself, then try this:

Connect your camera to your computer with the USB cable and turn the camera on, run the Canon EOS Utility application that came with your camera (the application should automatically start up, if this is how you usually download your images). Click Camera settings/Remote Shooting option, now in the middle of the remote shooting window, you'll see a little icon that is a hammer and spanner (set-up menu) click this and then underneath this you'll see a Copyright field. Click this and you'll now be able to type in your copyright message and or contact details (you can also enter the Author information here and update the firmware of your camera if you so wish). Click OK to finish, this new information will get transferred to your camera, and be embedded in each photo you now take and show on the EXIF data of your photographs.

Doing it this way, means you can search Google to find out if anyone is using your images, as people tend not to remove the copyright meta data information :-)

I hope this help.

Regards

Nick

Here's a video Link on the Russell Brown Watermark Panel, he gives the URL to download it in the first few seconds, You need to get the correct version though, I think there are versions for CS 4 & CS5, not sure about earlier versions.

[url]http://tv.adobe.com/watch/russell-brown-at-photoshop-world-2011-orlando/adobe-watermark-panel-version-206/[/url]

Wow so much info...need to digest it all but thanks so much, appreciate it all

Chris, the copyright info can be entered in camera in the exif file on the 60d.In the menu go to the third last section(third spanner icon),the fourth heading is copyright information,press the set button and you will see four titles allowing you to display the copyright info,enter the authors name,enter the copyright info or delete the copyright info.
If you enter the relevant details here your copyright details will be in the exif file for all your photos before you transfer to your pc or laptop.

Des

Chris, it might be helpful to say what you meant in your first post as you have two completely unrelated solutions - adding copyright info to exit details or watermarking images.

Is it worth the effort? People who are computer savvy can remove water marks and edit data?

Karen

- I've never come across anyone who has removed my watermark

- I have seen a few who have cut off the watermark, but never digitally removed it.

- I now watermark right across the width of the entire photo

- Most instance of photos used without my permission at least contain my url

- I've seen lots of instances of people complaining on photography websites of their photos being stolen, reposted without acknowledgement or used without permission, I don't recall many of them having a watermark slapped right across them.

For me it is worth the effort, and to be honest there is very little effort involved. I use the Photoshop waterark plugin, tell it where the photos are, how to watermark them (which is the same every time) and where to save them. I then do something else productive while it goes off and does it's thing.

That said, I only watermark my American Football shots because I know they will be ripped off, at least when they are people can see who took them.