Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 478)

471 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Saving and exporting images
Last updated 1/10/2010
About notes
You can attach notes to an image in Photoshop. This is useful for associating review comments, production notes, or
other information with the image. Notes appear as small non-printable icons on the image. They are associated with
a location on the image rather than with a layer. You can hide or show notes, or open notes to view or edit their
contents.
Add notes
You can add notes anywhere on your Photoshop image canvas. When you create a note, an icon appears on the image.
1 Select the Notes tool in the Tool bar or choose Window > Notes.
2 In the Options bar, enter or specify the following as needed:
Author Specifies the note author’s name.
Color Selects the color for the note icon. Clicking the color box opens the Adobe Color Picker so you can select a color.
3 Click where you want to place the note.
4 The cursor will automatically be active
Show or hide notes
To show or hide notes, do one of the following:
• Choose View > Show > Notes.
• Choose View > Extras. This command also shows or hides grids, guides, selection edges, target paths, and slices.
Open, edit, or delete notes
To open notes:
• Click on the note icon within the image. The note text will display in the Notes panel.
• Open the Notes panel and click back arrow/forward arrow to toggle through all notes associated with the active
image.
Note: From the Notes panel, you can edit the note by changing the text or delete the note by clicking the Delete Note icon.
Adding and viewing Digimarc copyright protection
Read a Digimarc watermark
1 Choose Filter > Digimarc > Read Watermark. If the filter finds a watermark, a dialog box displays the Digimarc ID,
creator information, and image attributes.
2 Click OK, or for more information, click Web Lookup. The Digimarc website is displayed in your web browser,
where contact details appear for the given creator ID.
Adding digital copyright information
You can add copyright information to Photoshop images and notify users that an image is copyright protected via a
digital watermark that uses Digimarc ImageBridge technology. The watermark—a digital code added as noise to the
image—is virtually imperceptible to the human eye. The Digimarc watermark is durable in both digital and printed
forms, surviving typical image edits and file format conversions.