Watermark Programs

[Brent]

I'm looking to start posting my pictures on the internet, but worried
about my pictures being copied. Any suggestions on what watermark
program I should use?

[Joel Neild]

Brent, I use Lightroom for all my photo adjusting. It automatically adds a watermark to my images when I process them. Lightroom is the best management/editing software I know.

Joel

[firstduephotos.com]

Brent,

I use Photoshop Elements. I was able to find step-by-step
instructions in Scott Kelby's book on Elements that walk you through
putting together a watermark. Do you use Photoshop or Elements? I'd
definately recommend ANY Scott Kelby book. If you get jammed up I can
put a watermark together for you that will work in either PS.

-Ted Pendergast
www.firstduephotos.com

[Craig D.]

I usually use PHoto Mechanic as part of my workflow to add watermark
to any image being posted on the internet. It's a great program for
viewing, selecting, ranking and doing quick edits of images. You can
also add IPTC and meta data. When you save the images, it allows you
to downsize for the web and also add a watermark at that time.
http://www.camerabits.com/site/index.html. It's about $150 for the
program but I've been using it for years now and it's ALWAYS the first
stop for images in my workflow. As I understand, programs like Adobe
Lightroom, Bridge and Aperture will also allow you to add watermarks.

Craig

[Brent Bollar]

Thanks for everyone's input.

 

Brent

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From: Craig D. <cr...@firegroundaction.com>

To: Fireground Action Photography <Fireg...@googlegroups.com>

Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:10:56 PM
Subject: [Fireground Action Photography] Re: Watermark Programs

[Danny]

You can try photo mechanic out for free for 30 days

Danny

On Dec 18, 3:23 pm, Brent Bollar <brentb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's input.
>
>  Brent
>
> ________________________________
> From: Craig D. <cr...@firegroundaction.com>
> To: Fireground Action Photography <Fireg...@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:10:56 PM
> Subject: [Fireground Action Photography] Re: Watermark Programs
>
> I usually use PHoto Mechanic as part of my workflow to add watermark
> to any image being posted on the internet.  It's a great program for
> viewing, selecting, ranking and doing quick edits of images.  You can
> also add IPTC and meta data.  When you save the images, it allows you

> to downsize for the web and also add a watermark at that time.http://www.camerabits.com/site/index.html.  It's about $150 for the

[chibiphotography]

Brent,

By watermark, are you referring to the semi-transparent logo
superimposed on the screen and visible by the naked eye or by using
Steganography to embed a {nominally} invisible watermark such as is
provided by DigiMarc? [https://www.digimarc.com/]

DigiMarc offers several expensive annual subscription options and will
track your pictures to provide you with some traceability on your
pictures and provides a plugin for Adobe products to add the watermark
to the image. When they first started out, they offered a low cost
option for hobbyist photographers however, they abandoned that market
long ago.

If a semi-transparent logo is good enough for you and you use Smug Mug
like several of us do, my referral code is http://www.smugmug.com/?referrer=WpY2puT3cG8IM
;) then you can design an overlay graphic and have Smug Mug apply it
to images that are served out to the public. This way you do not have
to deal with putting it on every image. Note that as the image owner,
you can still download the original if you misplace your copy and
prints are made without the logo, it is only added to the web version
of your picture.

If your image hosting choice does not offer this option, you would
still probably design your overlay graphic and keep it as a template
to apply as a final top layer on any image you edit. If there is
sufficient interest we could probably come up with a tutorial that
shows a simple example of making a semi-transparent logo.

Doug

[Ryan Ling]

These are all for PC users...

I have used a program in the past called drop watermarker where you can
watermark a bunch of photos at the same time.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dropwatermark.html

For those users that are not Photoshop literate, Google offers a free
program called Picasa which is very easy to use. I have this installed at
home and the wife just loves it. It offers basic image editing as well as
the ability to export pictures with a watermark or image.
Check out http://picasa.google.com/

Another link to some other applications here:
http://www.tucows.com/Windows/DesignTools/Image/ImageWatermarking/
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/watermarks.html
http://www.watermarker.com/

Also, here's a Windows plug-in that I have found comes in really handy. It's
the image resizer powertoy where you can right click on a picture and click
resize to make a smaller lo-res image. Great for email and the web...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

Enjoy.

Ryan Ling
www.firelinephoto.com

[Filip]

Invisible watermarking is nice, but DigiMarc is sooo expensive. There
are other possibilities. IceMark or SignMyImage. SMI the cheapest one
and provides image tracing.

F.

On 25 Pro 2008, 17:31, chibiphotography <d...@chibiphotography.com>
wrote:
> Brent,
>
> Bywatermark, are you referring to the semi-transparent logo

> superimposed on the screen and visible by the naked eye or by using

> Steganography to embed a {nominally}invisiblewatermarksuch as is

> provided by DigiMarc? [https://www.digimarc.com/]
>
> DigiMarc offers several expensive annual subscription options and will
> track your pictures to provide you with some traceability on your
> pictures and provides a plugin for Adobe products to add thewatermark
> to the image.  When they first started out, they offered a low cost
> option for hobbyist photographers however, they abandoned that market
> long ago.
>
> If a semi-transparent logo is good enough for you and you use Smug Mug

> like several of us do, my referral code ishttp://www.smugmug.com/?referrer=WpY2puT3cG8IM