To create a watermark in Capture One, go to the Export icon and choose the Watermark option. You can add both text watermarks and graphics-based watermarks. You can create a watermark using the system’s fonts, certain tokens, or import a ready-made graphics file or image with a transparent background. Capture One is compatible with all common graphics and image file formats that support transparency for use as a watermark. Capture One allows you to use tokens when creating a watermark on images. This option greatly simplifies the task of adding a high-quality text-based watermark to images during processing.
N.B. < > : " / \ ? * are all considered illegal characters and cannot be used when creating a watermark
To be able to see your watermark in the viewer, you will need to activate Proofing mode from the View menu:
You can also add the Proofing option to your toolbar if you customize it:
Adding a text watermark
- Go to the Export icon.
- Choose the Watermark tool.
- Select Text from the Kind drop-down menu and choose from the following:
- Enter the text required for the watermark in the Text field, or ...
- Click on the adjacent (…) icon to open the Watermark Tokens Manager dialog box. Select a token or collection of tokens from the list displayed, from the Group or Presets drop-down menus, or add a combination of text and tokens, and select OK.
The watermark will be visible on the image in the viewer in the Export window. If you want to see the watermark in the main viewer (export tab in main UI) please be sure that Recipe Proofing is enabled.
- In the second Kind drop-down, you can select Points to ensure that the watermark follows the crop proportionally
- Click on the (...) icon next to the Font field to adjust the font and color of the text.
- Adjust Opacity and Scale sliders to the desired level.
- Adjust the placement of the watermark using the Horizontal and Vertical sliders or by clicking on the Hand cursor tool (hand icon).
- Once the watermark is created, it will be saved as part of the recipe highlighted in the Export Recipe tool, so it can be reused whenever it is required.
Adding a graphics-based watermark
- Go to the Export icon.
- Choose the Watermark tool.
- In the Kind drop-down menu, select Image.
- Drag and drop a pre-prepared image file with a transparent background in the Drop image here field in the tool or browse for the file by clicking on the File Action menu (...) icon, which is below the Drop image field.
- The watermark will be visible on the image in the viewer in the Export window. If you want to see the watermark in the main viewer (export tab in main UI) please be sure that Recipe Proofing is enabled.
- Adjust Opacity and Scale sliders to the desired level.
- Adjust the placement of the watermark using the Horizontal and Vertical sliders or by selecting the Hand cursor tool (hand icon).
Removing watermarks
You can remove any text- or graphics-based watermarks from images by selecting to display None from the Kind drop-down menu.
- Go to the Export icon.
- Select the Watermark tool.
- In the Kind drop-down menu, select None. Images are cleared of any text- or graphics-based watermarks.
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