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Anyone have suggestions for a quick and efficient watermarking software? I've been using waterMark V2, but this one is too cumbersome/slow. If I crop an image, the watermark size I'd selected doesn't work, the watermark will now show too big on the cropped image, so then I have to change the text size again and again, depending on what size an image is cropped.

I'd like to use a watermarking software that will maintain a consistent size of text, regardless of the cropping of the photo. Another problem I run across is having to change the watermark font colour depending upon the colour of the bottom corner of the photo.

Is there a watermarking software that will automatically change the watermark font colour in reaction to the background so that the watermark won't blend in with its background?

Any ideas appreciated. Thanks.


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I use photoshop and layer it on top...but on a rare scenario used lightroom as well....
Both of these software's have decent control on the features you mentioned


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Photoshop...I have my watermark open as a second image and I drag it from there to the image I'm working on as the last step before saving.


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My web gallery software, Gallery3, does it for me automatically. I just upload. It resizes and adds the watermark, in the specified location.


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My web gallery software, Gallery3, does it for me automatically. I just upload. It resizes and adds the watermark, in the specified location.


That was very interesting, until I found out that I needed a Apache web server...


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That was very interesting, until I found out that I needed a Apache web server...


It's not very difficult, though they state that Windows is not a supported O/S. Apache, PHP, and that's about it. Just make sure that you use an older version of Gallery 3, like V3.02, so that you don't need to tweak it for Windows.


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Lightroom is gold for me. Its way easier – and faster – than actions in photoshop. Some of my watermarking jobs can exceed 1k images. That would suck if I had to do that with an action in photoshop.

With Lightroom, once you have your workflow nailed down you can easily batch export to any of your clients requirements via your watermark presets. If I lost that ability my life would descend into anarchy.


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Thanks guys. I finally figured out that the "secret" to the problem was to create a .png file, in order to make transparency around the text possible. Done deal, I'm now adding my watermark to the photos I'm posting.

I would have hoped to find a watermarking program that could have watermarked photos in large batches, but the ones I've found will create a very large watermark to the photos that have been cropped, so for now, I'll have to keep on watermarking them one by one as I upload them.


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You are absolutely correct N1755L. Save your logo, copyright image, etc as a transparent png.

I've always used Lightroom. Very responsive and easy to use. Better yet, you can apply your watermark to as many mages as you wish at one time...brilliant.


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I'll have to try it, I'm hoping that it would be possible to keep the watermark at a consistent size, i.e., a certain percentage of the image. As I'd mentioned, with other software I'd tried, if I cropped the image, the same watermark might show HUGE on that cropped image. The watermark should always automatically size as a percentage of the full image.

I hope LR will be able to do that, else you end up having to re-adjust your watermark for every different size crop in order to maintain a consistent size of watermark. What a pain, what a time consuming task, there aren't enough hours in the week. You'll notice my Picasa images don't have a consistent size of watermark.


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You are absolutely correct N1755L. Save your logo, copyright image, etc as a transparent png.

I've always used Lightroom. Very responsive and easy to use. Better yet, you can apply your watermark to as many mages as you wish at one time...brilliant.


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I'll have to try it, I'm hoping that it would be possible to keep the watermark at a consistent size, i.e., a certain percentage of the image. As I'd mentioned, with other software I'd tried, if I cropped the image, the same watermark might show HUGE on that cropped image. The watermark should always automatically size as a percentage of the full image.

I hope LR will be able to do that, else you end up having to re-adjust your watermark for every different size crop in order to maintain a consistent size of watermark. What a pain, what a time consuming task, there aren't enough hours in the week. You'll notice my Picasa images don't have a consistent size of watermark.


Have you considered using a consistent image size for web-only exports? This would make it easier to use a consistently sized watermark that is appropriate for your target image size. In my case, while I don't watermark, I generally always export with a 1000 pixel size on the long edge for things I'm publishing on the web.


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Have you considered using a consistent image size for web-only exports? This would make it easier to use a consistently sized watermark that is appropriate for your target image size. In my case, while I don't watermark, I generally always export with a 1000 pixel size on the long edge for things I'm publishing on the web.


Yea, that would solve that particular problem, but then I'm not certain that I would want to consistently down-size all my photos accordingly. Maybe some day I'll give up and apply your suggestion. Thanks.


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While it does make it more effective it still introduces quirks with vertical compositions. I always do 1024px or 900px (120 film).


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Lightroom has proportional to output size as one of it's watermark functions (under edit watermark)


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Have you considered using a consistent image size for web-only exports? This would make it easier to use a consistently sized watermark that is appropriate for your target image size. In my case, while I don't watermark, I generally always export with a 1000 pixel size on the long edge for things I'm publishing on the web.


Yea, that would solve that particular problem, but then I'm not certain that I would want to consistently down-size all my photos accordingly. Maybe some day I'll give up and apply your suggestion. Thanks.


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Will look for that this evening. Thanks.

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Lightroom has proportional to output size as one of it's watermark functions (under edit watermark)


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Have you considered using a consistent image size for web-only exports? This would make it easier to use a consistently sized watermark that is appropriate for your target image size. In my case, while I don't watermark, I generally always export with a 1000 pixel size on the long edge for things I'm publishing on the web.


Yea, that would solve that particular problem, but then I'm not certain that I would want to consistently down-size all my photos accordingly. Maybe some day I'll give up and apply your suggestion. Thanks.


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Lightroom. Nice an unobtrusive.


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