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Title: Watermarking
Post by: Josephine on December 27, 2008, 01:43:42 PM: Can someone please recommend a program that Herb can use to watermark some of his pictures?

TIA :-*
Title: Re: Watermarking
Post by: rastasean on December 27, 2008, 04:02:37 PM: I believe the program Gimp can do that. If not, there is a plug-in for gimp to do watermarking. I'm not at my work computer so I don't recall the name of it off the top of my head here's gimps site:
http://gimp.org/

good luck!
Title: Re: Watermarking
Post by: ol' dirty taper on December 28, 2008, 02:04:53 AM: On the mac I can recommend iWatermark (http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iwatermark/). I think they may have a PC version too now, can resize, watermark, ICC profile info, rename processed files and some other really useful features for $20. I probably use it daily to watermark my stuff.

Just a neat simple little app.
Title: Re: Watermarking
Post by: rowjimmytour on December 28, 2008, 04:13:03 AM: Quote from: Josephine on December 27, 2008, 01:43:42 PM
Can someone please recommend a program that Herb can use to watermark some of his pictures?

TIA :-*
Is Herb going to quit is day job? If you don't find your answer here I could ask a couple concert pro photogs I know and see what they say ;) Edit to add I use photoshop on the pc but not sure if you were looking for freeware or shareware.
Title: Re: Watermarking
Post by: iberbi on December 29, 2008, 12:14:30 AM: Thanks for the help guy's. . .I've up graded my photoshop and will be giving watermarking a shot tomorrow. I'll let you all know whether I'm successful or not. :-\

Thanks Herb
Title: Re: Watermarking
Post by: spreetaper on December 29, 2008, 09:48:44 AM: I'm not the greatest when it comes to graphics but I did manage to follow an online tutorial for creating watermarks in photoshop
now I have two preset watermarks and it literally only takes me 10 minutes to do all my pics after a night of shooting a show
of course I spend a little extra time to make sure the watermarks can't just be easily cropped out but at the same time I prefer not to plop them right in the middle of the photo
Title: Re: Watermarking
Post by: ol' dirty taper on December 30, 2008, 07:03:38 PM: Spreetaper

You should look up how to make a Watermark Action in Photoshop.

You can use File > Scripts > Image Processor and save all images in a folder or whatever is open into JPG, PSD, or Tiff and also run the watermark action, as an option in Image Processor, and it'll take about a minute of your time.
Title: Re: Watermarking
Post by: phanophish on December 31, 2008, 11:35:23 PM: Quote from: ajmiller on December 30, 2008, 07:03:38 PM
Spreetaper

You should look up how to make a Watermark Action in Photoshop.

You can use File > Scripts > Image Processor and save all images in a folder or whatever is open into JPG, PSD, or Tiff and also run the watermark action, as an option in Image Processor, and it'll take about a minute of your time.

Ditto , I just created an action and use it to do an entire directory at a time. Makes it pretty painless. The biggest issue is I don't know of a way for Photoshop to detect Portrait vs landscape orientation on photos and make the watermark appear proportional.