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now i tried your way works great and it can stretch or shrink the watermark layer to change the look as well. my w/m text layer gets compressed when you move the handle up the sides. then i move the text layer back down to put the watermark at the corner of the photo. as a bonus it is a way to widen my text without text-height doubling in a large copy. how is it able to change the colour of the text in the saved watermark layer? when i import the watermark layer onto a pic the colour wheel no longer seems to affect it except to fill the layer but seems it won't alter merely the colour of the watermark text that i have on the same transparent layer so i am wondering is it no longer text now its been saved as an image? does it take the magic wand to select text on a layer? i hope to select just the layer that has saved text on it and change the colour of that text but not re-colour the entire transparent layer. thanks for your interest in my questions i'm just starting out

hey thanks a lot that explains the way to go about it really well and sounds like the best idea. it will save a lot of retyping when photo sizes are to be changed. as you say an end user of a watermarked jpeg whom enlarges it, is stuck with a stretched watermark still i'd easily provide a PDN copy along with its jpg, to give the same control to people who are using a pic of mine. i hope to have pics small sizes for free and full size for sale or would that be disallowed if i am selling the photos? i haven't tried photoshop and i think it costs too much. open-source sounds more or less only for students and isn't it a saleable art work if they use an open source ware like this? thanks again for your interest

hi forum members can a watermark stay the same size even when an image size is altered? say if its text and it gets too big when i enlarge the image how do i shrink the watermark ? when it is already merged and flattened as one picture without a separate layer. such as a php or java script to keep the watermark distinct in a way even in a flattened pic or to select the watermark to erase it and re-apply it in the right font size back onto the resized pic?