Watermark

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Hmmm, now you have me thinking. My buddy, whose bike I'm changing the oil on this evening, is a graphic artist. How many oil changes do I need to do to get a free logo design? LOL
 
You're clearly missing the idea of my post. What's the point of putting a 'watermark', an incorrect description of what exists here, if it's so removeable. Digital images are virtually impossible to mark with indelible, unremoveable footprints - they can, but not easily - so why do it in the first place?

A bona-fide end-user would not be interested in copying the image for their own purposes, and the plagiarism of material, by those who would, is'nt going to be stopped by adding a 'logo'.

You clearly missed the idea of my post. You do not delete anyone's watermark on this forum. You need to delete the post where you did it and never do that on this forum again.


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§am

Senior Member
Watermarks, added images to jpg's, do not work as a means of 'protecting' the image. And I'm unclear as to why they are used.

They don't protect the image per say, but they do provide a quick visual cue as to who the owner and copyright of the picture belongs to (as an example), or sometimes a web address to the owner's site etc


All photo-agencies require any logo's to be removed, and as yet I've not seen an image in a professional magazine with a logo on it.

​This could be due to the fact the photograph has already been sold to the magazine by the photographer, or that somewhere hidden away in the literature is information pertaining to who the copyrights belong to and what people are allowed to do (or not do) with the images in the magazine.
 

wud

Senior Member
Watermarks, added images to jpg's, do not work as a means of 'protecting' the image. And I'm unclear as to why they are used. All photo-agencies require any logo's to be removed, and as yet I've not seen an image in a professional magazine with a logo on it. For hard-copy proof you can do something like this, but remember if you are paid to take photographs the ownership of the images rest with the payer (the employer) not the photographer, unless a prior contract arrangement exists.

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I removed my previous post. Tony.

Well, I just use it now because I earlier have found some of my pictures on a few websites, not shared, but just copied from my page - that way no one knows where it comes from. I know people can remove the watermark/signature, but a lot dont know how to do that, and for my pictures, they are not grapping it to pretend they made it, they just think its pretty/cute/funny, and want to show it off.

I might as well get a little free advertising, if someone are grapping my pictures :)
 

Michael J.

Senior Member
I used for so many photos Faststone Freeware

FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that intends to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.

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  • Convert and Rename images in batch mode
  • Support JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF and JPEG2000
  • Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text, watermark and border effects
  • Rename images with sequential number
  • Search and replace texts in the file names
  • Preview conversion and renaming
  • Support folder/non-folder structure
  • Load and save settings
  • And much more...
FastStone Photo Resizer - Powerful Image Converter/Resizer


Such a great tool
 

Eduard

Super Mod
Staff member
Super Mod
The easiest way that I've found to watermark, add frames, etc. from Lightroom is by using Mogify2. Check out this recent thread for more info.
 

wud

Senior Member
Am I the only one on a mac?! I was again looking for a watermarking program which also could write the exif data on the image for me.. but now I've been looking for more than half an hour and still nothing.

Seems that all the programs you posted, are for Lightroom or PC. Dont have either. I tried a program a while ago but deleted it and now I dont remember the name.
 

Eduard

Super Mod
Staff member
Super Mod
I'm on a Mac (and PC) and the easiest solution for me is on output processing from Lightroom using Mogrify as described earlier. Are you using a catalog/asset managing program (e.g. Aperture, Lightroom, ACDSee, etc.)?
 

wud

Senior Member
I'm on a Mac (and PC) and the easiest solution for me is on output processing from Lightroom using Mogrify as described earlier. Are you using a catalog/asset managing program (e.g. Aperture, Lightroom, ACDSee, etc.)?

I saw it but I dont have Lightroom. I found Iwatermark, annoying program but got some exif on well, some of the pictures.

 
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