Colored watermark question

[ocnsprt]

So I have created a few watermarks, havent decided on one yet, but I cant figure out how to, after saving as a brush and loading into preset manager, to get the brush to show up on my pictures in the colors I created it with, so I have one with three different colors, but it only shows up on my pictures with the color selected at the bottom of the tool bar where the bg and fg colors are... can anyone help me??? Im using photoshop elements 2 (ancient I know) so it may not be possible to save as such

[xxpinballxx]

as far as I know when you create the signature with the text tool it will always be the color you hav selected in the background regardless of the colors you were using at the time of creting the brush preset.
Its only saving the actual text and style you put on the text.
The only thing i can think of is to save it after creting the text, make a selection of it and save as a .psd then when you want to place it overlay it and transfrom to the size you need it. That seems like a real pain to me. Might be easier to just add the color back after using the brush.

[vsa]

You're better of saving it as .png or better yet in vector format in .psd (or as .ai or .pdf if you have illustrator). You can then just place it on the image with as many colors as you want. The upside of vectors is that you can scale them however you like. If you save it as .png make sure to have it reasonably sized so you don't have to make it bigger than the original version. You can always make it smaller.

You can even make it action so all you have to do is push one button combination and you'll have the image on the photo. Then just resize and place it in the right position. (not sure about elements though... I live in the Photoshop CS3 world)

[ocnsprt]

Thanks to you both, I am gonna play with it and see what I can do, but I think I may just end up saving each seperate part of the watermark and use it in layers so I can maually set the colors each time to be picture appropriate, thanks again for all your advice

[xxpinballxx]

On a side note if its the signature you are using on your flickr page I really like it!
Nice work on that.

[ocnsprt]

Originally Posted by xxpinballxx

On a side note if its the signature you are using on your flickr page I really like it!
Nice work on that.

Thanks, I have a bunch up there, which do you like???

[idcrewdawg]

I guess I'm seeing you making your problem being more complex than it needs to be. I personally would make your signature an opaque silver color with a darker gray shadow. This would allow for color variance of white to black in your photo's without needing to edit the signature every time. Save it so that you can overlay it onto the photo and then flatten (I think that's the term) it for the final product.