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Download new templates, new fonts, resizing&rotation features and much more.
With this version we’ve added a huge amount of features that were highly requested by you, our customers. And even more features are coming very soon!
Let’s see what we have in Visual Watermark v3 right now. Continue reading →
We’ve just published a new article on how to make watermarks that don’t annoy your viewers. Follow these 4 easy steps to protect your photos well and still preserve all the beauty your photos have:
- Keep the watermark simple and clean;
- Position and size accurately;
- Blend the watermark with the photo;
- Add you copyright and contact info to the meta of your photos.
Read the full article here.
To watermark or not to watermark photos? This is an endless debate between photographers. Why do photographers use watermarks? Indeed, visual watermarks protect your ownership and copyright from online theft. In some instances, photographers use watermarks for self-promotion, recognition and advertising purposes. Watermarking can be done using professional software such as Visual Watermark.
It’s obvious however, that visual watermarks (like logos, large stamps or texts) carelessly placed, distract from the overall look and feel of a photo. When you see such a watermarked photo, all you think about is the watermark.
If you want images you share online to be attractive and cohesive, you should tastefully and unobtrusive integrate watermarks. Your watermark shouldn’t impact the overall look and feel of a photo. Instead, the watermark should be a part of a photo. Carefully integrated watermarks are hardly noticeable. Their removal is a labor intensive process.
This is the subject of this tutorial. I’ll demonstrate you how to blend a watermark into a photo using Visual Watermark. Note this is a time-confusing process and cannot be suited to all types of photography.
Image copyright Bogdan Khartchenko
- Import your images into the program. Mac: Drag them into the program screen, or click the Select Pictures button. Windows: Drag photos into the left side of the program, or click the Add Images button.
- Fit your watermark into the right place within a photo.
- Open watermark editor. Mac: Click any of the photos you’ve just imported. Windows: Click the Create New Watermark button.
- Add and design your watermark. I’ll use a text watermark for this tutorial with a name in it. Mac: Click the Add Watermark – Text menu item. Windows: Click the Add Text button. Enter watermark text, select color and size on the screen appeared.
- Finally, blend your watermark with the rest of the photo so that it looks like a part of the photo. I’ll make the watermark partly transparent by setting its opacity to 60% and change its color to be slightly yellowish.
- Windows: Click the Apply button to return to the main screen and then – Watermark button in the bottom-left corner. Mac: Click the Go button to start watermarking.
And I’m done. I’ve successfully integrated a watermark so that it doesn’t distract from the original photo. Before you integrate a watermark into your next photo, carefully position and transform it. Stay tuned for more tutorials.
This article continues the series on watermarking your digital multimedia content. If you are using or planning to use Picasa to organize, view, edit and share digital photos, read this article for information on how to use this software for copyright protection of your digital images in batch mode.
Get Started Batch Watermarking
Run Picasa 3.9.0. Select the photos you would like to watermark and click Export as shown in the screenshot below:
This invokes the ‘Export to Folder’ dialog:
Follow the steps listed below to protect your copyright in a batch:
- Specify the Location folder to which watermarked images will be exported (copied).
- Specify Image Size if required. Leave this option unchanged to use the original size.
- Select an appropriate image quality. Let’s use Maximum.
- Select the Add watermark option and type the text.
- And you are done. Click Export to run the batch watermarking.
Picasa Limitations
- In Picasa, image watermarks are not supported. Only text can be used.
- You cannot specify font settings (font name, size, color, etc). In Picasa, a watermark is white text (for dark photos) and black text (for light photos).
- You are not allowed to specify the location at which a watermark should be embedded. In Picasa, a watermark is added to the lower-right corner of photos.
Want to embed images or adjustable strings to the required location?
Performance Measurements
Finally, let’s measure how much time it takes Picasa 3.9.0 to embed a custom string in multiple images. The results are shown in the table below:
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Total Files
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File Size, Mb
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Total Processing Time, min
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442
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5.2
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6:56
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Processor: Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU 2.00GHz 2.00GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
System type: 64-bit Operating System
Want to watermark much more photos during the same time?
Adobe Lightroom is a powerful tool the majority of professional and amateur photographers use to organize, edit and manipulate their digital content. In this article, you’ll learn how to add the watermark to your photos in a batch using Adobe Lightroom.
Get Started Watermarking
Run Adobe Lightroom 4.0. In the Library, select photos need to be watermarked and click Export:
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This tutorial is for Adobe Photoshop Elements. If you own Adobe Photoshop, here is a tutorial for you.
Whether you are a photographer, web designer or blogger, you’ve most probably had to deal with the headache of protecting your digital photos copyright. It’s easy enough to watermark, let’s say, ten or twenty pictures. But what if you have to process 10K pictures?
Batch image processing can make this process extremely faster and nearly painless. In this article, you’ll learn how to add the watermark to multiple photos in a batch using Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.
Get Started Watermarking
Run Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. Go to the File menu and select ‘Process Multiple Files…’ as shown in the screenshot below:
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You can find a lot of articles online regarding which digital image format should you shoot: RAW or JPEG. I newer shoot JPEG. Here‘s why.
Extended Dynamic Range
You get the most of the possible data from your image sensor in the camera. You can make HDR photos.
Huge Control
You can adjust picture settings after you’ve taken it. These are: white balance, contrast, sharpening, noise reduction, exposure, saturation, levels and much more parameters.
Highest Level of Quality and Lossless Post Processing
Pixel values are more precise and the photo is rendered more accurately. You can make adjustments to your photos yourself. Having made a change to one photo, you can save these settings and apply those to other photos taken in similar conditions. When you make adjustments to a RAW file, you don’t modify the original image. You can resent your adjustments, and start over again.
Advanced Color Correction
12 or 14 bits of image data provides unlimited editing capabilities in working with colors, highlights and shadows.
Multi-Format Converting
You can convert a RAW file to other digital image format: JPEG or TIFF. When exporting a RAW file, you can choose from any color space.
KickStarter is a website that allows inventors to promote their projects using images, video presentation and descriptions for everyone to see and generate funding. When a project is fully funded, it is brought to market and begins shipping.
The number of photography-related products is incredibly high, ranging from unique iPhone lens attachments to versatile camera stabilizers and more! Here are our top 10 favorite KickStarter photography projects (continued). Continue reading →
KickStarter is a website that allows inventors to promote their projects using images, video presentation and descriptions for everyone to see and generate funding. When a project is fully funded, it is brought to market and begins shipping.
The number of photography-related products is incredibly high, ranging from unique iPhone lens attachments to versatile camera stabilizers and more! Here are our top 10 favorite KickStarter photography projects.
Continue reading →
Achieving the best exposure is pretty much like collecting rainwater in a bucket. You want to make sure that you collect neither not enough (underexposed images), nor too much (overexposed images) water.
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