Software in Review - Watermarking

in software •  6 years ago  (edited)

Are you an avid photographer? And you show off your works on a website or even social media and Steemit?

And yet you want to protect your rights ? Watermarking comes to the rescue.
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We can simply use an image editor and add our watermark easily. With Photoshop, you can also simply all a pre-made layer to any of your photos for watermark.

But when the number of images you want to watermark becomes big (say few hundred photos), it becomes tedious, to edit every photo to add the watermark.

On top of that, if you want to have dynamic watermark. Say, adding camera settings in the image, or dynamic text (name of author or company) for different photos, then you will need tools to help you get it done very quickly.

Enter bulkWaterMark software by PMlabs. It's certainly a very handy tool, though not free. But it's certainly affordable.

For my own purposes, I have hundreds of food photos for a menu of a restaurant. They are named 1000.jpg, 2000.jpg etc. I have a spreadsheet that looked something like

ID, NAME, Menu ID
1000, Chicken Pasta, C1
2000, Pork Chop, P1

And I want the text to be added to my photos

example :
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With a tool like bulkWaterMark, I can achieve the results in a shorter time than trying to hand watermark each image.

Visit their site at :
https://pmlabs-apps.com/bulkwatermark/

a 4 star rating by me !!

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Dear @sinlg

Interesting choice of topic. Very unique. I didn't hear people talking about watermarks much lately.

Somehow I'm not sure if most people care about adding thise watermarks. It does make their pictures on websites look awful. It does efficiently put readers off. That's my impression anyway.

So it does potentially damage our business / our efforts.

But when the number of images you want to watermark becomes big (say few hundred photos), it becomes tedious, to edit every photo to add the watermark.

That's also good point. The thing is that automated watermarks will be placed in places on the pictures, that may not be necessary the best to put watermark (for instance: face of an model).

I think most people do not bother much about watermarks and they don't care if their own photos will be used somewhere by someone else (since it doesnt really affect them).

That's just my impression. What do you think?

Cheers
Piotr

I think most people do not bother much about watermarks and they don't care if their own photos will be used somewhere by someone else (since it doesnt really affect them).

Yes.. but Watermarks have many applications.
Example, I'm trying to get photos of food and label them with their names.. So this is also a good application.

I bet you're right. thx for sharing @sinlg

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