Create your signature into a watermark for your image editing. So the first thing you want to do is get anice, big, clean, white sheet of paper and a pencil. I'm using a 4B pencil here so it's soft. I want a soft pencil because it creates anice texture. Then what you want to do is you want to draw your signature on the blank paper and make sure it's completely done. But, you know, you can vary it depending onhow thick you want it to be.
Now, I'm using that 4B pencil because it'sgoing to give a nice, thick layer and a nice texture. And then, what we want to do is we want totake a photograph of it using our mobile device. So take your phone, make sure you're exactlyabove it, not at an angle. And then, in that way, fill it up nicely,and then snap the photo, then send yourself an email. Send a full res file. Open it in your email on your computer withPhotoshop and then we're going to go through the process now of converting that into abrush that we can reuse all the time to create our watermark. So all I'm going to do is I'm just press CtrlL and it would be Command L on Mac, for levels. And this is one of those times where levelsis just great.
So what we're going to do is we're going todrag this little white triangle on the right-hand side and then it's going to clean up the whiteon the paper. You want to do that until all the detail isgone from the paper. And here, now, we've got a prettygood signature with the texture, but I want to kind of darken it up a little bit, so grabthe black triangle on the left-hand side and pull that in and how we can thicken it. Now you know when you've gone too far likehere. It looks a little much, so take it to aboutthere and you may want to clean up your mids a little bit just by sliding that slider. how it just gets rid of that yellowing? And we don't care about the edges.
All I care about is the area there where thesignature is. Just play around until you get it lookingabout right. I like that and then we're just going to clickOK. Now, all we need to do is just grab our LassoTool and just make a selection around the signature, making sure that you're not gettingany of these bad areas like that or that in there. All right, now we're going to convert it toa brush and we're just going to go up to Edit, Define Brush Preset. And we're going to create the Preset and the size of the brush there. It's going to be 2500 pixels. That's really huge. If you wanted to create a smaller logo, justuse Image Size and you can do it that way. So I'm going to do a full size and I'm goingto click OK.
So, now, we've created a brush. Now we want to go into our image here. Here's a photograph that I did from my droneand I want put a nice signature watermark on here, so I'm going to hit the B for Brushor just go down here in the toolbar, grab the brush. Make sure I've got white for the foreground. Now, you could sign it with black or white,but in this case, I think white is going to look really nice. Then, we go up here and we're going to goto the very last one which is right there. That there and we're going totake a new layer and now we're just going to move over. it's really huge there and youcan also the texture.
So I'm just going to hit the left bracketkey to make it smaller or if it's really huge, what you can do is go up here and just dropthe size down to a reasonable level there. And then, we can use the bracket keys to makeit a little bigger or smaller. I think I'm going to make this bigger thanI normally would just so it clearly, and then all I'm going to do is justclick once to apply it. And there we go, we applied that logo and the organic nature of it.
Let me just hit the Move Tool and zoom ina little bit. And the texture therefrom that Bristol paper and from the pencil. It creates a very natural, organic-lookingwatermark that you can use. Now, if you want to save this to your creativecloud library for use later on, what we need to do is just go to the Brushes and then choose the B just to make the Brushes active and choose Brush Preset because you can't do it from the regular brushes. You have to do it from the Brush Preset andthat's it right there. So just open up your Library and then just click and drag it into the Library and there we go.
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