Watermarking a Model

With a watermark you can place a graphic in front of or behind your model. Watermarks can be used to add a company name or logo to identify your designs, but can also have creative applications.

To add a watermark to your model, follow these steps:

1. Open the Styles Panel and navigate to the Edit tab.

   

2. Select Watermark Settings (). Display Watermarks is selected by default. If unselected, watermarks won’t appear in your model.
3. Click Add Watermark (). Locate the image you want to use as a watermark. You can use .jpg, .png, .psd, .tif, .tga, .bmp files as watermarks.
4. Name your watermark and select either Background or Overlay. Background places the watermark behind your model, Overlay in front. Click Next.
5. Selecting Create Mask to create a vignette-like mask of your image where the white portion of the graphic becomes transparent and the black areas use the background color.
6. Use Blend to set how transparent your watermark is. The closer the slider is to the Background side the more transparent the watermark appears.
7. Click Next.
8. Use the options provided to set your watermark’s position. You can choose Stretched, Tiled, or Positioned.
9. Click Finish if you’re done creating your watermark, click Previous to go back and change a selection, or click Cancel if you decide you don’t want the watermark after all or to start over.

After you create your watermark, you can edit the watermark by following these steps:

1. Select the watermark in the Styles panel.
2. Click Edit Watermark Settings ().
3. Use the Edit Watermark dialog to adjust your watermark.
4. Click OK when you’re done editing your watermark.

To delete a watermark, select it in the Styles panel and click Delete Watermark (). If you have more than one watermark, click Move Watermark Up () or Move Watermark Down () to set how the watermarks are layered in your model.