Watermarking Your Photos 
Paint SHop Pro ver. 6 & 7 Tutorial.
This is a simple tutorial for watermarking your images to deter users from stealing your photographs on the web.

The tools and effects used in this tutorial can be achieved with either version 6.X or 7.X but the steps as they are presented here assume PSP version 7
Open a new image 300 x 300 pixels and make sure the background is set to White. Now select the Preset Shapes tool and choose the round rectangle shape. Set the line width to 15, the Line Style to 1-Solid and make sure Antialias and Create aas Vector is checked. Draw a rectangle that will nearly fill the window in the horizontal direction. Center it with the Move tool and then choose Layer, Convert to Raster Layer. Now select the text tool and choose a font such as Arial at 28 points and create your LOGO. As you enter each line make sure you convert the layer to a raster layer. When you're finishe select Merge, Merge Visible. Your LOGO should somewhat resemble the one below.
Now using the Magic Wand tool click on the area outside of the rectangle. Then click on Selections, Invert to select the rectangle. Next we need to give it some texture. Choose Effects, Texture Effects, Emboss. This will produce the image shown above on the right..
Leave the marching lines active and open the picture that you want to watermark. Now make the watermark image the active window and choose Edit, Copy. Move to our picture window and choose Edit, Paste, Paste as New Layer. You should have something similar to the image below.
Open the Layer palette. Select the Layer that contains the watermark and click on the word Normal to open the Blend modes panel. Ther are three blend modes that work well, the Overlay, the Soft Light and the Hard Light. For this example I used Soft Light and produced the image shown below.
You can move the watermark anywhere on the picture and the LOGO will remain transparent. You can also use the Opacity slider in the Layers Palette to reduce the intensity of the watermark. The choice is yours. Once you are satisfied with the location and intensity, flatten the layers by choosing Layer, Merge, Merge All Flatten.
The Overlay Blend mode with the Opacity at 50 produces this result
The Hard Light Blend mode with the Opacity at 30 produces this result