Creating a Watermark Brush in Photoshop

1. Create a New Document

Open Photoshop and create a new document. Make it whatever size you like. I personally prefer something at least 600 x 600 pixels in size. Make sure that you select ‘Transparent’ in ‘Background Contents’.

2. Create Your Watermark Text

This is pretty straightforward. Use the Type tool to create your watermark text. Make it as large as you want your final watermark to be.

3. Turn Your Text into a Brush

There are many different ways of creating a watermark. One of these is to turn your text into a brush. To do this, first crop the image to the size of your text:

Now we need to turn this image into a brush.

Go to Edit -> Define Brush Preset. In the dialog box that pops up, give a unique name to your watermark brush and hit ok.

Your image is now a brush that you can use with the brush tool to ‘paint’ your watermark.

4. Add the Watermark to the Image

Now open the image that needs to be watermarked. For this example, we’ll use this image:

Select the ‘Brush’ tool ( ) and from the brush presets menu, scroll down and select the preset you just created.

You’ll now see your brush cursor change to your watermark image.

Before you can create the watermark, you’ll have to change the brush color. It’s best to use either black or white, though I personally prefer white.

All you have to do now is click the mouse once where you want the watermark to be, like this:

But wait…that doesn’t look very nice, does it?

That’s because we haven’t changed the brush opacity. Lowering the opacity to around 25% in the brush attributes menu bar will give us that nice watermark effect.

Tap the mouse over the image. The effect is far more pleasing now.

Congratulations, you’ve successfully created a watermark!