Watermarking
Paint Shop Pro� 8

Make sure your top box is set at null, and the bottom box is set at White (#FFFFFF).

Now select your text tool .  Use a large and thick font, it gives a much better result than small, thin fonts.  Click anywhere in the center of your graphic and type your text, hit Apply. Then Selections-Select None.  Use settings as shown in the below Screen Shot 3, only use a font that you have installed on your computer, click on the small image to get a full screen view or follow these text directions:

Create as: Floating
Font: Your choice
Size: 36 or size to accommodate your chosen font
Stroke width (pixels): 1.0
Anti-alias checked
Alignment: Centered
Font Style: Bold

Screen Shot 3

You should now have an image similar to this:

Watermarking your Image

Next go to Edit-Copy, then open the image you wish to watermark and go to Edit-Paste-Paste As New Layer on to the graphic you are working with. At this point you can drag your watermark to the area you want it by selecting your Move Tool . It will still be black and white. So go to Effects-Texture Effects-Emboss. Now ONLY your watermark will be embossed, not the entire image.

Ok, now go to Layers-Properties and set it as shown in Screen Shot 4.  Change the Blend mode from Normal to Soft Light.  Click on the image to the right for full screen or follow the below text directions.

Name: Raster 1 (skip this)
Blend mode: Soft Light
Opacity: 100
Link set: 0
Layer is visible: checked

Now if you like you are still able to move the watermark around and place it where you want. When it is on the graphic where you want it, go to Layers-Merge-Merge All (Flatten) and save your final result giving you something similar to the shown example.

If you like the way your watermark turns out, it would be a great idea to save the black and white image as a .psp file so that all you have to do in the future to watermark an image is open the watermark.psp file, Edit-Copy, Edit-Paste-Paste As New Layer onto the image you wish to watermark, Effects-Texture Effects-Emboss, and Soft Light in the Layers pallette.