Watermarking with Photoshop Elements 10

I am trying to watermark some of my photos, I have learned to do them individually. I have also learned to do them with the "process multiple files" , however I have tried over half of the fonts, and even at 72 they are too small. Some of them you can barely even see! Does anyone know why? Is there anything I can do to make it larger? It doesn't do any good to watermark it if it can't be seen....HELP please???

Hi,
I just tested the Process Multiple Files method of adding watermarks and found a couple of things:
1. The resulting files (jpegs) are quite a bit smaller even if you do not request a file resize or file conversion. For example, one picture went from 1319 KB to 283 KB.
2. The color I chose for the watermark was not saved anywhere that I can find, and I do not remember what color it was (a light brown, I think). As I used 25% opacity the nicely discrete watermarks do not have a single pixel that I think is my chosen color.
3. I now understand that doing this edits and saves the jpegs and does some lossy compression. I would imagine that any method of watermarking a jpeg would do the same. BUT I wish I could control the amount of compression.
4. Being error-prone, using my test files, I redid the watermarks, this time with 100% black text (same font and size, as preserved by the dialog, a nice touch). The 100% black text overwrites the 25% brown text nicely. And, that 283 KB file is 284 KB (could be a rounding error in Windows Explorer -- using Windows XP Pro).
5. Other than Bottom Left, Center, and Bottom Right, you can't specify how far from the margins the watermark appears. Because of this, I'm inclined to try the "Brush" technique -- or one of the free downloads.
--Bob Stromberg in Greenwich, NY

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