Handwriting On My Photography

[katefanco]

Hey everyone!

I'm not sure if this is the right community board to be posting to but I'll give it a chance. I really want to add my own handwriting to my photography however I don't want to have to go through the process of scanning it all of the time. Is there a way to add handwriting to images either using a Wacom tablet or an iPad?

For context, I only have the Photography Suite (Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge).

Thanks for your help in advance! ☺️

[davescm]

You can write directly onto an empty layer in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet (or similar). If you want to use that same handwritten text in other images, just drag the layer into another document.

Make sure you save in a format that supports layers and transparency i.e. TIFF/PSD or if only using one layer with transparency PNG. JPEG does not support transparency so is not suitable.

Dave

[Leslie Moak Murray]

I  came to ask this same question. If you use the same words over and over, another way is to make them into a Phototshop brush (select the words, then Edit>Define Brush Preset).  I've made brushes out of my signature and copyright notices, also various versions of my logo for this purpose.  (-edit- And of course the writing is on its own separate layer)

[Conrad_C]

There are at least four ways, maybe more:

• What davescm already wrote about using a Wacom tablet directly, because Photoshop has supported Wacom tablets well for over 20 years. Including support for Wacom stylus pressure, and if your tablet has these, barrel angle and barrel rotation too. So you can use a Wacom stylus to write expressively on a Photoshop layer using any Photoshop brush settings you want, like a calligraphic brush. 
• In Photoshop for iPad, you can use an Apple Pencil to write on a new Photoshop document and then open that on the desktop, or you can create a Photoshop document on the desktop and open it on Photoshop on iPad, write on that, and open it back on the desktop. 
• In Photoshop for macOS, if you set up your iPad as a second Mac display using Sidecar, you can move the Mac Photoshop window to the iPad screen, and write with the Apple Pencil on the iPad directly in that Mac Photoshop document. 
• In Photoshop for macOS, if you choose File > Import from iPhone or iPad > Add Sketch, a new sketch window will open on your iPad. You can write there, and when you click Done, the iPad will send the sketch back to Mac Photoshop as a new document. You can drag that document’s layer and drop it on another document. 

[Trevor.Dennis]

Does Photoshop on the iPad have the CC Libraries?  If so, that is the perfect place to save a signature. That makes it accessible any time.