| Watermark Tutorial tutorial by: Alaskansonya written: June 18, 2003 Please feel free to Link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your personal use. Any similarity to another tutorial is purely coincidental- this tut is of my own imagination. Let's get started!
This is what we are making: 
For this tutorial, you will need PaintShopPro - you can download a free trial version HERE. This tutorial is done with the beginner in mind.
1. In PSP, Open a new image 300W x 200H, transparent. 
2. Click on your text tool and click the center of your new image. Choose your font (i used Pristina, but you can use your favorite), my size was 26 (choose the size best suited to your needs), click on the 'standard text' tab, choose a white fill and your stroke is null, click selection and antialias. **To create the copyright sign, you hold down the alt button on your keyboard and type 0169...You will get this: © 
Click ok, You will see your name as a selection with "ants" marching around it but nothing inside. It will appear empty and that is what we want! 3. Keeping the empty name selected, we are going to add a drop shadow to it. **We can do this with or without a plugin filter. If you have Eye Candy 4000 skip to section 4, otherwise we can do just as good with the dropshadow that comes with psp!** Okay, go to Effects, 3D effects, drop shadow and apply these settings: Vertical 1, Horizontal 1, Opacity 84, Blur 1.1 and color black. Go to step #5. 
4. **This step is for if you have eyecandy 4000 plug-in filter!!** ....Use instead of step 3. okay, go to effects/plug-in filters/eyecandy 4000/shadowlab. Use these settings: center offset 300, Distance 1.00, Opacity 99 and the blurs should both be 0, put a checkmark in 'draw only outside selection'. (you can't see the black in this image below, but its there! lol) 
5. Selections, select none. resize to the size you want it to be or you can just resize it later. Crop to remove the extra space. (crop tool/drag to contain words/double click inside square) 6. Now to save as a tube so that you can re-use it for all of your siggies! Go to file, export, Picture tube. Then type in the name of your watermark in the open space and click ok. 
congratulations!! You now have a watermark to add to all of your siggies and other images that you make. You can make several to have on hand and I even make some that are just white to show up on dark images. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! ~Sonya~ ©Sonya's Siggy Shop 2003 | 
