What's an easy way to watermark my product photos?

[suklee]

Will be going live with a product catalog soon, and before I upload the images to our server, I'd like a simple way to add watermarks across the entire jpeg...

Any suggestions?

 

[Thyme]

Advanced Batch Converter lets you add text, but not really water marks. Maybe there are some image batch processing programs that will.

 

[Rottie]

If you have Adobe Photoshop then do google search for watermark plug in.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Download Paint.NET (or use Photoshop or any other prog that supports layers), add a layer with opaque text.

 

[rmrf]

http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gimp-win/gtk+-2.6.9-setup.zip - gtk setup file
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gimp-win/gimp-2.2.8-i586-setup.zip - gimp 2 setup file
http://registry.gimp.org/file/bumptext.py?action=download&id=5651 - bumpmapping plugin
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/The_Basics/ - tutorial on using bumpmapping plugin

 

[Eureka]

Or just simply:

create a layer with your logo on it, place it onto the base image, lower the opacity until you can see the background easily but the watermark still shows, save as one file.

I've only done this with Photoshop, but I believe GIMP should be able to as well.

Norm

 

[ttown]

image magick -- free and easy

and flexible, too

 

[Thyme]

Will any of that do it on batch so he can do it to his whole catalog at once?

 

[ttown]

Originally posted by: Thyme
Will any of that do it on batch so he can do it to his whole catalog at once?

image magick is command-line runnable -- and so can be scripted to do batches

something like:
for x in ('ls *.jpg')
convert ..a whole mess of command line options... yourwatermark $x new$x
end

something like that, anyway

EXAMPLE DOCS -- with watermarking about 1/2 way down the page

 

[Thyme]

Then that sounds like a great solution to the OP's problem

 

[suklee]

Wow, thanks guys for the abundant suggestions!

I have photoshop, but not sure how 'convenient' it'd be to do a bunch of photos.

image magick looks promising.

I'll be checking each as time allows throughout the day, and will update on my progress. Thanks again.

 

[Xyclone]

PS works for me!

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: Xyclone
PS works for me!

Any tips on the actual watermark text?

Text - simply put my company name?
Type face - do certain fonts work better than others?
Layer opacity - will experiment.
Placement - diagonal from bottom left corner to top right corner?