How to Make a Picture Watermark in Powerpoint
Watermarking, the process of securing property such as paper cash or staking a claim on artwork such as photographs, isn't just for government agencies and artists. Making picture watermarks is something that takes just seconds in a computer program such as Microsoft PowerPoint. Whether you require the ability to show slide versioning or attribute credit in a presentation, you can add a picture watermark in PowerPoint.
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Instructions
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Open "PowerPoint." Click the "Insert" tab. Click "Picture." Browse to the picture to watermark, and double-click the file name. The picture is added to the slide. Drag the picture into place on the slide as desired.
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Click the "Text Box" button on the ribbon/toolbar below the "Insert" tab. The cursor turns into an inverted plus sign.
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Click and drag the mouse to form the watermark box, then release the button.
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Type the watermark text, such as "Confidential," "Property Of" or your name and date.
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Highlight the watermark text. Click the "Home" tab. Resize, recolor and reformat the text using the options in the "Font" section of the ribbon/toolbar, such as centering the text and making it dark gray.
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Click the text box to bring out the small green dot in the top center of the box. Click and twirl the green dot to rotate the text box about 30 degrees so it is pointing on an angle from the bottom left of the slide to the top left. Click anywhere off the text box onto the slide to remove focus from the text box. The picture watermark is now in place.
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