Create a Custom Signature Brush Using Photoshop

Posted: March 04, 2014

[caption id="attachment_11803" align="alignright" width="600"]Image from digitalphotographyschool.com[/caption]Putting a unique mark on a photo to prove ownership can be a challenge - especially in today's day and age. People go online and easily download photos, then pass them off as their own. Easily mark your photos with a signature to keep photo fraud at bay.

Jeff Guyer, author at Digital Photography School, shares an easy way to make a custom signature brush in Photoshop.

How to Make a Signature Brush in Photoshop

The decision of whether to watermark images posted online is a frequent topic of debate. Proponents say it’s an added measure of security–a notice to would-be image thieves that the photographer takes his or her copyright seriously and will defend it like a mama lion protecting her cubs. Others point out that watermarks are distracting, clients don’t like them, and unscrupulous people with decent editing software can make that watermark disappear in the blink of an eye, so what’s the point? Regardless of where you come down on this issue, sometimes you just find yourself wanting to make sure the world knows that you took the photo.

There are a lot of ways you can do this, but I find most of them to be rather cumbersome. You can create a watermark and save it in various file formats, but that means opening the file and dragging it onto your image each time you want to use it. Chances are that you’ll have to resize it and/or adjust the opacity for every image.

Read the entire How to Make a Signature Brush in Photoshop on Digital Photography School.