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Add a Text Watermark Over a Picture

    Placing a watermark on pictures that you plan to publish to the web will identify them as your own work and discourage people from stealing your works or claiming them as their own. Here is a simple way to add a text watermark to pictures using WinWatermark.
    Before the starting, you may need to know what is the text watermark and what kind of text can be used for watermarking. The text watermark is a phrase or sentence to identify your pictures and it always be your name, copyright, comment or website address.
    OK! Let's go. We will add "WinWatermark The Best Watermark Software You Really Need" to the picture "EP126.jpg".
  • 1. Run WinWatermark and Load a picture form your hard disk by clicking the "Add Files" button.

  • 2. Click the "Watermarks" tab page.

  • 3. Click the "Add Text" button to open Watermark Setting window.

  • 4. Click the "T" button to open Text Setting window.

  • 5. Type the text you plan to place on the picture.
  • In this section you can set text for the watermark, select text style, aligning mode and insert text templates.

  • Here's the text effects in different settings
  • Original Text
    Bold Text
    Italic Text
    Underline Text
    Center Aligned Text
    Right Aligned Text
  • 6. Modify the font, as you need.
  • In this section you can set text font name, text size and text color.

  • 7. Adjust the shadow parameters, as you need.
  • You can make your text look like 3D with enables shadow effect.

  • 8. Adjust the background parameters, as you need.

    • Shadow Text
    Text with Background
  • 9. Click the "OK" button to confirm your settings.
  • Or click the "Cancel" button to abort. The Text Setting window will be closed.

  • 10. Adjust the text rotation and opacity.

  • 11. Select a alignment mode and adjust positioning parameters.

  • 12. Click the "OK" button to confirm your settings.
  • Or click the "Cancel" button to abort. The Watermark Setting window will be closed.

  • You can get the watermarked picture after processing.

There is an another sample to tell you how to place an image watermark on pictures in batch mode >

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