Watermarking
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- arseni
What are the best apps for watermarking? PC/MAC. Something very simple - only for this purpose. Not photoshop.
Also, are there any sites that allow batch watermarking? Free, perhaps?
Thanks.
- arseni0
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- k0na_an0k0
you want to put a watermark on top of the image so no one will steal it (for comps), or, are you looking to add some kind of watermark to the file itself to mark it as yours?
the later is something called metadata. trust me, i'm somewhat of an expert on it now.
if you have cs2 or cs3 it should have come with adobe bridge. you can add specific metadata to a file in bridge. photographers use metadata to add their signature to jpg and png files so no one can steal them and pass them off as their own.
if you're looking to just add a faint white mark above an image set up an action in photoshop. create a 100% white graphic, change it's opacity to 15%, save as, close, stop recording. then use that action to the batch process in photoshop. done.
- arseni0
Kona,
thanks for the response... But this is not for me but for a client. They're an event promoting company and want to watermark images before uploading to the site... like 50 images at once for example. And photoshop is not something i want them to use - too complex. I searched and found a bunch of apps for PC, but wanted to see what people use the most.I'm figuring out how to do it server-side... but in the meanwhile wanted to find out what easy apps there are.
Thanks.
- Witt0
not sure if it is possible - but you can generate images with PHP using SVG files. not sure how you would watermark them - maybe attach some code somewhere.
crazy idea.
- acescence0
you can use php and the built in gd library to add watermarks to images. i built this for a client a while ago as part of the script that did the image uploading to their site.
- Witt0
- ribit0
iView Media Pro can add an image of your choice in the corner of your choice as part of its web gallery generator function... could be useful as an all-rounder for all their image processing, with less learning curve then Photoshop..
- ribit0
but really, an Image Ready droplet can apply a fully-customized batch-watermark Action to a folder of images that are dropped on it... zero learning curve.