Add a WaterMark type background to an image?

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I have a bugnch of documents I'm scanning in and I want to somehow take them all and put a big "SAMPLE" across them or something so no one can just download them and use them by printing them out.

Is there any program that can just do this in bulk so I don't have to modify each file one by one?

 

[igowerf]

Do you have Photoshop? You can easily do it with an action script and a batch process.

 

[Kelemvor]

I have photoshop but all I know how to do with it is resize images. Heh heh. I've only used it a few times when the need arose.

 

[jfall]

Are you scanning them as images? If they are images, you can use something like infranview to do batch image processing

 

[Kelemvor]

Yes I'm scaning them in as images, saving them as JPG or GIF or whatever. THen I jsut want to stick the SAMPLE thing on them. It's no big deal to do them manually but doing stuff in batch is nice and fast.

 

[jfall]

Get ifranview, all you need to do is setup what you want to put on each picture, highlight them all and process. Its free too!

 

[Kelemvor]

I found the program and installed it. Can you give me a quick run through of how I set up what I want it to do as far as just putting the word SAMPLE across each image?

Thanks.

 

[TheJoost]

Hi All,

Check this out! It's simple, kicks a$$, and free!

picture-shark


Ciao for now,
Joost

 

[zagood]

Very easy to do in photoshop. Here's some instructions - based on a very old version, but still applicable. Much easier than installing a new piece of software just for that.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/56846/photoshop_tutorial_how_to_add_a_watermark.html?cat=15

 

[rivan]

Very easy to do in photoshop. Here's some instructions - based on a very old version, but still applicable. Much easier than installing a new piece of software just for that.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/56846/photoshop_tutorial_how_to_add_a_watermark.html?cat=15

Quite good, but even better than that would be to record those steps as an action, then batch that action on a folder of images.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digitalphotography/l/blps_batch.htm

 

[Binky]

Check out fineprint. Adobe Acrobat can also do this on PDF's, but I think fineprint is better.

Edit: I just noticed that you're scanning "documents" and saving them as images. This seems a bit odd since PDF would be much easier to print for the end user. My suggestions wont work as well as they would for a PDF format.

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

You guys realize that the OP probably figured it out 6 1/2 years ago? Noob or spam bump, I'm not sure which.

 

[zagood]

Ohhhhh, crap.

 

[Ika]

damn those necros :\

 

[Binky]

Lol, oops. The necro poster does appear to be a spam poster. His history has several suggestions for software from the same company. At least one other necro post too...

 

[gsaldivar]

http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html