Summary: Before showing a client your work or displaying your portfolio on the web, make sure everyone knows whose work it is with an easy to create copyright watermark.

Written by Steve Patterson
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Part of our complete collection of Photo Effects tutorials.

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to easily add a copyright watermark pattern to a photo.

If you're one of the many digital photographers or designers who are using the web these days either to show a client the work you've done for them or to show off your portfolio, one of the major concerns is that someone out there is going to steal your work. And while there's no guarantee that anything you do will stop them, there are things we can do to make life more difficult for them.

One of those things is to add a copyright watermark to your images, and in this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to see how easy it is to do.

We'll use this photo as our example:

Let's say this was a photo I took for a client and I want to show it to them as a proof. Before I go showing it to them or anyone else, I'm going to first take a couple of minutes and add my copyright information as a watermark across the image.

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