PS watermark HELP!

[Dawna]

I was trying to create my water mark in PS4 and what I wanted to do was making several layers. Is there a way to make all the layers go to one? When I went to move the watermark to my pic. I would have to move each line. I am not too Ps savy as you can tell.

This is what I want sorta the wording is too flat and it its just kinda blah! The blue I was trying to get it to go across the picture. Can any of you help?? Or give me a place to go to find the info.

[Gulf Coast Girl]

Originally Posted by Dawna

I was trying to create my water mark in PS4 and what I wanted to do was making several layers. Is there a way to make all the layers go to one? When I went to move the watermark to my pic. I would have to move each line. I am not too Ps savy as you can tell.

This is what I want sorta the wording is too flat and it its just kinda blah! The blue I was trying to get it to go across the picture. Can any of you help?? Or give me a place to go to find the info.

Well I'm no PS expert.... in fact far from it. However I'll give it a shot and maybe someone else will have a better idea.

I use PS CS5 and in that version to Flatten an image (which is what I think you are trying to do as flattening is the same thing as combining all layers into one) is go to LAYER on the menu and choose FLATTEN IMAGE. There is also an option right above that that says "merge layers" but I have no idea how that is different from Flatten Image?

Hope that helps

[Kit]

In your layers window, mark all the layers you want to merge together. Then go to your layers menue and select merge visible. This will put all your chosen layers into one layer, leaving the other layers (which you did not select) unmerged but still there should you want them. You can the use the move tool on your merged layer to move your watermark across to your pictures.

HTH

[karen_s]

Just a note on flattening/merging layers ... once you do this, your text will no longer be editable. I'd suggest either exporting the file to a new jpg (this process auto flattens your image) or doing a 'save as' and making a new file and flatten it. I do this all the time for graphics work as edits are part of the workflow. I end up with one layered (usually .psd) file for editing and one flattened jpg, tiff, gif, etc, for other uses.

[edbayani]

what you can do is after you type your name, go to layers, layer style, drop shadow, so the text will somehow have depth. or you can experiment with bevel and emboss after which you can now flatten the image to make it one layer (background layer)
another way is save as psd. type your name, put the layer styles, merge the text layers and delete the background. this way the layer will be transparent. only the text will show. when you drag the text, there will be no bg., only the text will serve as watermark.

[zona5101]

When you're all said and done with it you could also save it as a custom brush...then you can stamp it any size you want, any where you want and any color you want. change the opacity etc - anything you can do with a brush...

[wings of a bluebird]

Originally Posted by zona5101

When you're all said and done with it you could also save it as a custom brush...then you can stamp it any size you want, any where you want and any color you want. change the opacity etc - anything you can do with a brush...

can I please ask how you do that? (sorry to hijack dawna!)