

Now go to the layer panel of GIMP and move the black watermark layer above to the original watermark layer by dragging it with the help of the mouse button. Now take the move tool from the tool panel and move this black watermark a little bit in an upward or downward direction or where you want to drop the shadow of your watermark. Now go to Select menu of the Menu bar of GIMP and click on None option of scroll down list for enabling selection around black watermark of this layer. Now make a click on a selection with bucket tool cursor for filling this black color on it.

Take the Bucket Fill tool from the tool panel of GIMP or press Shift + B as the shortcut key of the keyboard. Take a transparent layer again and set black as the foreground color of the color box in the tool panel. Now it is selected, then click on the create a new button of the layer panel to have a new layer again.

Bring opacity back to 100 % of this watermark layer and make right-click on it, then choose the Alpha to Selection option from the scroll-down list for selecting this watermark. Let us add some shadow to this watermark for making it more effective. Now down the opacity of this layer, our watermark is ready to use it on our work. For merging it, make right-click on the brush layer and click on the Merge Down option of the scroll down list.Īnd we have a merged layer of the watermark in the layer panel. Now merge this brush layer with the text layer. I will make two clicks of my brush pattern for adding it to the text watermark as a watermark design. Now make a click on our created new transparent layer with a brush. Set the size of the brush according to you from the size parameters of the brush tool. If you want to learn about creating your own brush, you can find out our Paint Brush article. I will choose one of my own designed brush patterns. Now take the Paint Brush tool from the tool panel of GIM or press P as the shortcut key of it.Ĭhoose your desired pattern of brush from the pattern design of parameters of the brush tool. To create a new layer by clicking on Create New button of the layer panel.Ĭreate a transparent layer by choosing the transparency option from this create a new layer dialog box and leave other parameters as they are then hit ok. Now let us add a brush mark as a watermark with our text. You can design your text as per your choice. You can increase the size of your text according to you. I will type EDUCBA as my text which is our official name. White color will be good because it will be clearly visible on any background except the white color background.Ĭhoose your desired font from this list, or u can have any better font style for the internet. Take white color as foreground color because it will be our text color. Now take the Text tool from the tool panel or press T as short cut key for this tool. We have this nice color on the background of the watermark.
