Multi-Solution of the method of making fireworks watermarking effect

Usually we will often see some pictures added text watermark effect, whether as a copyright logo or as a description of the picture, today we will simply look at the use of FW MX2004 to make this watermark effect of two common methods. First of all, let's take a look at the production of the completed effect chart.

　　 first method of making: Using Mask
1, open the need for a watermark effect processing bitmap objects, this example opens the image as shown in the following figure.

2, Next, we have to do a simple image processing. Select the Lasso tool for the toolbox, make some related settings on the property panel, set the edge to feather, and set the feather value to 10. Specify the following figure.

3, on the open bitmap object with the Lasso tool circle to draw the area to be processed, as shown in the following figure.

4, select menu command "Choose | Save Bitmap selected", so you can temporarily save the area of the circle to standby.
5, press the "delete" key on the keyboard, delete the selection area. If you press the ' delete ' key to delete the selected range, you can open the layer board to see if the selection is on the bitmap object, and if the following illustration shows, the selection is not currently on the bitmap object, but a new selection of the bitmap layer directly, the solution is simple, Directly hit the open bitmap object on the layer.

There is only one bitmap layer on the Level Panel, and the Selection object on the edit area can also be deleted, as shown in the following figure.
6. Select the Text tool in the Toolbox and enter the text "watermark effect" in the edit area. Font here uses a handwriting thicker font "founder Super soiled Simplified", the font size is "66", the font color used white, font edge effect for "smooth anti-aliasing." The effect of the edit area is shown in the following illustration.

Tip 1 Here you can select the File | Save As menu command to save a PNG file in its current state for future use. Anyway, remember to make sure that the PNG file that you generate later is available.
"Hint 2" to achieve the best watermark effect, text color suggests the best use of white, not other colors.
7, respectively (or at the same time) to select the Edit Area bitmap objects and text objects, press the "Ctrl+shift" key to clone them, now you can see the layer panel on a total of four objects, as shown in the following figure.

8, select the text object at the top, press the "Ctrl+x" key, cut it, select the Bitmap object at the top, select the menu command "Modify | mask | Paste as Mask", there is no change at this time in the editing area, but the level board has changed. Select the remaining text object and drag it to the bottom of the layer panel, and the object arrangement for the layer panel should look like the following figure.
"Prompt" Drag text objects to the bottom of the object I hope everyone can consider the reasons, here is not to specify.

9. Press SHIFT to select both the Mask object layer and the text object layer, perform the bevel and Emboss | emboss command in the Effect menu command on the property panel, and make the relevant settings as shown in the following figure.

10, back to the editing area to see if the effect has been done? Take a look at the picture below.
Supplementary Introduction:
1, if the 9th step of the selected effect command is not the bevel and Emboss | emboss command, instead select the Shadow and Halo | Projection effect command, and make the effect as shown in the following figure.

2, this edit area appears as the graphic effect shown in the following figure, but because of the use of "projection" effect, you can see the Mask object edge of the visible shadow effect, and the overall watermark effect is not very coordinated, then need to do a simple processing.

3, select the Mask object, press "Ctrl+shift+alt+z" key combination, convert it into a bitmap object, the layer panel will be shown in the following figure.

4, remember the 4th step of the above menu command "Choose | Save Bitmap selected"? In this step, you need to use the saved bitmap selections. Select menu Command Select | Recover bitmap selected so that the bitmap selection you just saved will appear again in the edit area, as shown in the following figure.

5, to confirm that the selection is just converted to a bitmap on this layer, press the "Delete" key repeated 2~3 times! This will eliminate the edge of the shadow that appears when you use the "drop shadow" effect until you reach the effect you think is most satisfying.

6, the final completion of the results are shown below.

PNG source diagram:
　　 The second way to do this is to get the path selection using the Layer board
1, open the first method in the 6th step to save the PNG file, continue the subsequent edit operation. Now the Level Panel object is shown in the following figure.

2, click the bitmap layer, press the "CTRL" key, click on the layer of the text object, so you can get the shape of the text object as a selection of the effect

The text selection shape is shown in the following illustration.

3, press the "Ctrl+x" key, the selection of the content cut off, now the editing area effect will be shown in the following figure.

4, press "CTRL + V" key, you can paste the shear selection to the new bitmap layer, now the level board object will be shown below.

5, press the "Shift" key, at the same time selected on the level of the topmost bitmap object and the lowest text object, as shown in the following figure.

6, select the Effect menu on the property panel "bevel and embossed | Inside bevel" effect command, in the pop-up Effect Settings window to specify the following figure.

7, now the editing area of the graphic effect will be shown in the following figure, another style of the watermark effect appears in front of us.

PNG source diagram:

　　 The third way to do this is to use Mixed mode
1, open the first method in the 6th step to save the PNG file, continue the subsequent edit operation.
2, the text layer and the position of the bitmap layer to make an adjustment, open the level board, directly drag the text layer on top of the layer, now the level of the board as shown below.

3. Select the text object for the edit area, choose the Shadow and flare | Drop effect command from the effect menu on the Properties panel, and make the setting shown in the Pop-up settings box below.

4. After setting, the graphic effect of the editing area will be shown in the following figure.

5, back to the level board, to continue the operation. Select the text layer and change the blending mode to "color multiplication", as shown in the following figure.

6, OK, the editing area of the watermark effect has appeared, please see the image below the effect of the picture.
　　 Fourth Way to make: direct use of the projection effect command
1, see the third method of the 2nd step, the text layer placed in place above the layer.
2. Select the text object, select the shadow and flare | Projection effect command in the effect menu on the Properties panel, and make the settings shown in the following figure in the pop-up settings box. Note that the check box for "Go to Background" is selected here.

3, the level of the object on the Panel does not make any changes, is still shown below the left, and the editing area of the watermark effect has been done, as shown in the following right figure.
　
"Tip 1" The limitations of the fourth method you can obviously see, that is, only the effect command of the "Shadow and Halo | projection" effect command, because only in this effect command will appear "to the background" setting way, so that a step to achieve the watermark effect, and the other effect command is not such a step to achieve, I hope everyone attention.
"Hint 2" saves the steps of the fourth method of production as a command, which can be combined with batch commands to create a watermark effect on a large number of pictures.

Well, for the specific method of the watermark effect, we have explained the four methods in this section, which is more suitable for you to use specifically, which depends on your job needs. I think we must have more and better ways to achieve this effect, the author here is to lose a brick it! This section of the tutorial ends here.