add .png to watermark but keep text editable?

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October 31, 2025
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Is there anyway to add a .png image to my watermark and still keep the text editable?

I've been using a text watermark on my images and often change the colour so its more visible on whatever the bg colour of my image is. (I use the colour picker in the text bar, works great)

I recently decided I wanted to add an icon (which has it's own colour scheme) to my watermark to fancy it up a bit but can't find a way of keeping the text editable with the colour picker once it's C&P'd to my final image.

I have a .psd of the watermark with the added .png, if I keep the two layers (linked) then when I C&P the watermark onto my final image I only get the top layer, If I merge or flatten I get the image and the text but can only change the colour with an adustment layer which changes the colour of everything 😞 .

Am I expecting the impossible? answers on a postcard (in simple language) to a troubled photographer

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

A water mark is something you'll use often, so take Aleke's advice and combine the text and background layers a Smart Object, and drag it to a Creative Cloud Library. That makes it instantly available from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. CC Libraries are way under-utilised IMHO.

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kittee47Author

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I totally don't need it stored on the cloud thanks.

D Fosse

Community Expert

A smart object is the way to do this, just as @Aleke suggests. This is in fact a textbook case for smart objects.

The mistake you made above was to use a flat PNG. You need layers in this embedded file, and PNG doesn't support layers.

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Aleke

Community Manager

Hi @kittee47, welcome to the community!
If you haven’t tried it yet, using Smart Objects for your watermark might make things easier. It keeps everything in one layer, and if you ever want to tweak it, you can just double-click to edit. This video gives a great walkthrough: https://adobe.ly/4oI6VMX
And if you’d like to dive deeper, here’s more info on Smart Objects: https://adobe.ly/43GFjj9
Hope that helps!
Alek

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kittee47Author

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@Aleke As you say, using smart objects means I can edit the original parts just fine (as a separate file) but doesn't allow me to edit the text colour with the text tool colour picker one it's been c&pd on to my image. I think I am expecting too much for that to work, however the smart objects do mean I can rezise on the fly without loss of image quality on the little graphic I've added to my watermark, I just have to use the extra step of adding a colour layer to change my text colour to mirror a major colour in my Photo (and make it clearer on the BG) it feels kinda clunky just now but I'm sure it will become second nature after the first 1000 photos or so 🙂 Thanks for the tip.

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