Watermark Your Photographs

WaterMark V2 offers you many more features than comparable expensive software.

WaterMark V2 guides your images out of your digicam into the internet: It reads the images in, resizes them, stamps a watermark on them and renames them logically after your user-defined pattern.

WaterMark V2 deals with following features:
- Multi-Layer watermark profiles consisting of image and text layers
- Text layers support a huge library of variables (inlcuding EXIF support)
(e.g. you can include filename or exposure time of the current input image to the watermark)
- Reads and writes image formats Bitmap, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF
- Batch image resizing
- Batch image watermarking
- User friendly image rotation function
- User definied renaming function of many files
- Watermark profiles can be saved
- Multilingual - open interface for language customization

The tool requires Microsoft .Net 2 to be installed

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I can't edit the title of this thread to get rid of that stray apostrophe ;)

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Originally Posted by Gives_Girls_Facials

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I can't edit the title of this thread to get rid of that stray apostrophe ;)

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** Eeeek, Grammir Poleece Alert!! **

Edit my thread title sunshine and I would be forced to leave my punctuation marks all over your :rolleyes:

But thank you for bringing this typically, terrible, typo to my attention...

...GivesGirlsFacial(')s :D

Alkie, I've been thinking about watermarks a lot lately, and I'm really glad to see a moderator suggesting them. It seems like the biggest complaint contributors have is that their photos end up on other sites, and I think this is a great way (or at least the only obvious way) to deal with the problem. However, I'm not sure if this is the right program to suggest, and it might be a good idea to go with one that can also blur out faces.

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Originally Posted by davetwice

Alkie, I've been thinking about watermarks a lot lately, and I'm really glad to see a moderator suggesting them. It seems like the biggest complaint contributors have is that their photos end up on other sites, and I think this is a great way (or at least the only obvious way) to deal with the problem. However, I'm not sure if this is the right program to suggest, and it might be a good idea to go with one that can also blur out faces.

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As we are limited to strictly open source/freeware applications in here Dave, there is not a lot of options out there.

This program was uploaded to assist any members in here to prevent the possibility of photo theft, anonymity was never the reason for it being upped here.

There are, I know, superior programs with a more varied range of settings on the market today but as mentioned they could be prohibitive to a casual user because of price.

P.S. If someone is looking for a way to blur their identities then 2 things spring to mind, google for some free photo editing software like "the gimp" and either blur or mark out the faces.
or
Wear a mask or a scarf round the face when the shots are being taken in the first place. :D

For a little bit simpler program, less features and what not, google picture shark. I've been using it for a few years now, and find it does just enough for me, without being too complicated or resource heavy. At least worth checking out

so much for posting this thread. i am going to download the program and see how it works. im hoping from now on to watermark all my stuff and maybe even edit all my old stuff. this is a great way to keep me in the free section for most of my sets!

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Originally Posted by CumAngel

so much for posting this thread. i am going to download the program and see how it works. im hoping from now on to watermark all my stuff and maybe even edit all my old stuff. this is a great way to keep me in the free section for most of my sets!

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Not a problem,
I only hope either of the programs mentioned can assist you.
We are only glad to help members like yourself.

Watermark master seems to be a fairly decent program, with a decent set of options. But it sadly isnt free. The only other problem is that it can also remove watermarks too. That seems to be an overall theme with a lot of the watermarking software, being able to remove those marks as well as create them. But not very many reposters out there are going to have the patience nor the understanding to be able to use those programs to remove the marks, so its still a pretty good line of defense.

Here is another freeware watermark program for those of you.

Picshark is not quite as user friendly but it is a handy alternative all the same.

It's a reality that pictures will end up on other sites, whether watermarked or not. It's just not preventable.

However, if you want to use a watermark, please put it on the side of the picture, like a badge or signature, rather than across the person's face. It kind of ruins the picture to have the person covered in a watermark.

I rarely look at fully watermarked threads - too distracting. But ones that have a badge or name on the side don't bother me!

Thanks!

A quick example of what WaterMark V2 can do, you can change the colour of the font to suit the background of your photo and also the transparency, it can also use graphics instead of just plain type.
Not bad for a free program.

Does anyone know of any Linux-based software that does something similar? I'd love to use this program but I don't have Windows installed on my computer.

Sorry but I know even less about the Linux OS than I do about Macs but hopefully if you have The Gimp installed this might help:

http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/adding-watermark-to-your-images-using-gimp/

or this:

http://www.savvyadmin.com/resize-and-watermark-images-in-linux/