Photoshop Watermark Plugin

[Xena Donovan]

HII'm transitioning from Photoshop Elements 12 to CC. In Elements 12 there is a "process multiple files..." Option where I can batch resize images by px, percent, inches etc and it lets me add a watermark in any color and place it in the center or bottom. In CC I see an image processor but I can't resize by percent and I can't add a watermark. I can do it with Actions but is there a predone script that I can use. Since it exists in Elements, is there a way to get the same dialog options into CC via a plugin?

I actually created one Action for horizontally oriented photos and one for vertically oriented. The resize and transform steps are different on each. Most notably, the resize step; I enter the desired short side's dimension for both (height for horizontal and width for vertical), and the long size is automatically filled in.

Last, create a third Action (the one you will choose in the Batch script) containing only an if/else step. Go to the Action panel's menu and choose "Insert Conditional." Set it like this: If image is horizontal: play [horizontal Action]. Else, play: [vertical Action]

Yeah I figured there was some action oriented thing to do here but I was hoping for something out of the box. Is there a way to export the elements script and import into CC. It already exists and worked really well for me. I don't want to recreate it. Is that script stored as a file in the elements directory? can I copy that into the CC files and make it available to use?

Thus far I have done this process by taking the image to PS (if not already in PS) and then increasing Canvas size and dragging my PNG water mark inside and resizing and positioning it (ZZzzzz....)

It's ok when doing it for a shot here or there, but I also do event work (paid and non paid), the non paid stuff I tend to always watermark like this, but if there are 20, 40, 100 shots like this... that means popping into PS for each and every shot (for this process) whereas it's quite feasible I edited things purely in LR (and used Syncing features) to be quick about things, popping into PS for this process for each and every shot kinda defeats the purpose. There has to be a quick way to handling this, even outside of LR/PS?

Thus far I tried the LR/Mogrify2 plugin. It was ok, but it seems restrictive with applying bordering in terms of only pixel parameters and not percentage. Even if two images are same aspect ratio, if one is heavily cropped and the other native, applying the same border will mean different thickness. The same can be said for watermarking.

I don't even mind sorting the images out in terms of orientation (portrait shots vs landscape), and then processing them separately, but the Mogrify 2 has no preview mode, so you're also just having to wait for the export of 'x' amount of shots, then go back and see which images have the bordering and watermark in really bad placements and go back and try fixing again.

You might be able to accomplish what you want by creating a template in the print module. Then instead of printing to paper Print to: JPEG file. Little bit of a work around but possibly better than doing one offs.

Lets say you have one image that is 36mp and native aspect ratio 3:2. You want to add border (but not lose image size or pixels, add means ADD), and also have the watermark in the border like shown above.

The idea is that the program or output will put the SAME thickness of bordering around each image, without compromising the size of the image, and also adding the watermark and automatically resizing it so that it fits in the bordering and appears the same, regardless of size of file, aspect ratio and such.

An image that is 1:1 would need to 'FIT' into a landscape defined cell but your margins would be different on the paper. That is not avoidable, unless you define a suitable template. You might. for a 1:1 image design a vertical 'portrait' template

The old adage- "you cannot fit a square peg into a round hole" applies equally well when you are trying to fit square 1:1 and rectangular 4:3 images into the same format photo cell/margins- something has to adjust -either the 'borders'/margins or the photo aspect ratio.

Identity Plates can be placed anywhere on the paper page- so that can be on the image area or on the defined white border. Identity plates can be very creative using text or images as logos (Create logos with transparency as PNG files), and also set for Opacity, Scale, etc.

The linked youtube video is for Photoshop, and as illustrated, canvas size can be increased by an action with many options, but this does not address the 'Paper -size and ratio' that you intend to finally print (Not a problem if you intend to supply digital image files). But yes you could define actions that might do what you want- even multiple steps to widen the lower border and 'place' a logo, etc.

Using "percentage" in the Photoshop canvas size will not create fixed size borders, as every image may have different 'pixel' dimensions to base the percentage on (unless you are working with images of same pixel dimensions- exported by Lightroom?).

You can make this more efficient by saving the action as a droplet. Then you set the droplet as an external editor in LR, or you specify it in the Post Processing Step of LR's export dialog. So in LR you would either Edit With or Export, and the droplet automates the rest (simple example here).

I guess the video shows a border solution only, much like the LR Print module ideas do too, but none of these suggestions can solve the idea of placing the watermark in the bordering as well, or do they? I mean from a purely batch process perspective.

I just finished an album, 169 images where I had to do this. LR/Mogrify 2 enabled me to do 135 in one go pretty swiftly, meaning it managed the bordering AND watermark in one batch process. But this was because each of the 135 images from the 169 were very similar, 3:2 ratio, very close in megapixel size etc. There are variances but not enough to really nit pick over. What was annoying were the other 34 images, they didn't do very well batch wise, hence this thread.

I'm now wondering if perhaps I need a border with a jpg of the signature embedded, and then a batch process to have that applied (as a layer?) to the images and scaled (percentage overlap, 110% etc) to the image regardless of aspect ratio and mega pixel and then outputted via Image Processing or something...

Well there's a work around for that too. Create a collection > Export collection and check 'Add collection' to catalog > Export collection with Watermark > Print module to create you template. Again this is not as elegant as one would like - a couple of steps - however once it's set up it's a quick workflow.

Not with using LR/Mogrify 2, you can apply the watermark off the image and onto the finished border (because it adds the border to the image and then adds the watermark after (technically onto the 'new' image which now has border added).

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Something like that would be great. I have a site where the photo files are the product. My solution was a little time consuming, but effective. I made a copy of the image to be downloaded, added the watermark in Photoshop, used that as the Featured Image for each Product page.

You'd be better off writing something that, if a checkbox is ticked when a photo is saved or updated, adds a bit of CSS that positions another image, the watermark, on top of the image. Quite simple to do once you get the data saved with the photo update. But that's not overly complicated or difficult to find out.

What's the purpose of the watermark? Just to give temporary attribution, or to discourage people from saving the images and reposting them elsewhere without attribution? Matthew's suggestion works fine if you just want to overlay some custom text on an image, but for the latter I would think the only means would be to have two copies of each image--one with a watermark and one without. That would get unwieldy pretty quickly if there are a lot of images, though.

I would think you're likely not going to find anything like that either. You'd probably have to write a custom plugin. And even that way it's still not going to be exactly what you are asking for. To "remove" the watermark, you'd have to fake it. Your custom plugin would have to store the originals on the server and when someone requests an image with no watermark you'd have to retrieve the original rather than the edited one. On the most basic level, what you are asking to do is impractical if not impossible. You can't just remove pixels from a raster image. There are ways to fake it but they won't look good. I would either go with the permanent watermark or find a way to hack together a plugin for wordpress that can store both the original and the edited photo.

Problem #4: After restoring the image I tested it on to remove the watermark, the logo will not disappear. I used the clear cache plugin, then opened the page in a completely new browser that I never use and cleared the cache, and it STILL shows the huge black logo on the image I tested on.

If you are publishing photos on the Internet, it is highly possible that someone copies it and publishes it as his own. Including a watermark copyright information on your photos will help identify you as the owner and prevent such misuse.

Watermarking adds a faint logo or text superimposed over the image. Let's see how you can add watermarks to your images using the most popular free image editor - Gimp. For those who are new, Gimp is the best alternative to Photoshop in the free software world.

First download the Text Watermark Plugin script and install it by copying it to Gimp's scripts folder. If you are not sure about the Gimp's folder, see this - How to install Gimp plugins. You will need to re-start Gimp after copying.

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