Putting my logo in photos

August 30, 2010 4:08 PM

How do add my logo to photos i'm editing in photoshop?

I have a logo that is my company's name, and I want to put that into my photos. Not just as a square that is cut and paste in photoshop, but just the script name of the company. Can someone take me through the steps of doing this? I'm trying to do it so it looks like these (these aren't mine, just some from online that show what i'm trying to do) I'm using adobe photoshop CS3:

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posted by Salvatorparadise to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Here's a tutorial. If that doesn't suit, you want to be searching for photoshop + watermark on the Google.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 4:12 PM on August 30, 2010

It sounds like you have the current background of the logo as a solid color and not transparent. Once you change that you can absolutely just copy and paste it as a square, although you probably want to paste it onto its own layer for ease of manipulation.
posted by Rhomboid at 4:48 PM on August 30, 2010

It's too involved to describe here, but if your existing logo is not a vector file, you could open it Photoshop and save as a .png or .gif with a transparent background. Then you can paste it in as described above.

If the background of your existing logo is a single color it would be fairly easy to do.
posted by Benny Andajetz at 5:34 PM on August 30, 2010

Why not just make an action that inserts text on a new layer at a specific opacity in a specific location. I would make one action for verticals and one for horizontals. Start recording and action; make a new layer; use the text tool to place and format the text how you want it; rasterize type; flatten layers; save (hopefully in a different location than the original so you can preserve the original).

This presumes that all the pictures will of the same relative size when you do the watermark.
posted by msbrauer at 9:18 PM on August 30, 2010