- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to add
a copyright statement to your document
that will be saved along with your screen image.
So that way if somebody is savvy enough
to find that information,
they at least know where your artwork comes from.
And so the first step is to go up to the File menu
and choose the File Info command,
in order to bring up the big old File Info dialogue box.
Now you want to make sure Basic is selected
here in the left hand list.
And then, you can drop down here to the Copyright Notice.
Now you can enter a copyright character on the Mac
just by pressing Opt + G, as in George.
Here on the PC, it's a little more difficult.
You have to have a numeric keypad for one thing,
and then you press and hold the Alt key,
and dial in zero, one, six, nine, sequentially,
and then you release the Alt key,
and you end up with a copyright symbol.
So once again that's press Alt, zero, one, six, nine,
release Alt.
All right, I don't need two of 'em, so I'll just enter one,
and I'll say 2015 and the name of my company,
which is Type & Graphics, Inc.
And then you might want to enter your name as well,
such as Deke McClelland in my case,
because this is the only field that gets captured
by the save for web command.
Now I'll go ahead and change the copyright statement
to Copyrighted.
Now you can add more information if you want to,
for example, I could enter my website, deke.com,
and if you want to test things out,
you can click on that arrow icon,
and you'll be taken to that website.
You can also enter your Author info up here
in the Author field if you like.
And I'm gonna do so by copying and pasting.
And you can add some Keywords and all kinds of junk.
Now all this stuff will be saved with the .ai file,
it will also be saved with the SVG file.
But the only thing that gets captured by save for web
when you save your PNG, GIF, or JPEG image,
is the Copyright Notice right here.
All right, now I'll go ahead and click OK
to accept that change, and then I'll go to the File menu
and choose Save for Web.
And let's go ahead and save this guy
as a PNG-24 file once again.
And so I'll just go ahead and click the Save button,
and then I'll navigate my way to the 15_web folder.
And then I'll go ahead and call this file
Copyright information, and I'll click the Save button
in order to save it out.
All right now I'll go ahead and open the file in PhotoShop,
and to see what kind of file info is still left,
I'll go up to the File menu and once again choose
the File Info command,
and we can see that the only thing we have here
is the Copyright Notice, which is why it's a good thing
I not only included my company name
but I included my name as well.
And it might've been smarter to include my URL
in this line too, which I can do of course
right here in Photoshop,
or, as long as I'm working in Photoshop, what the heck,
I might as well add it to the Copyright Info URL line,
and I might as well add my name to the Author line up here,
and then I'll click OK,
and now if I want to update this PNG file,
all I have to do is go up to the File menu
and choose the Save command.
And that's how you add copyright information
to any file that you plan on posting to the web
or otherwise distributing to the world.