Quick Start Guide

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You can use Visual Watermark in either the standard mode or wizard mode. The standard mode is more flexible and functional. The wizard mode is easier to use. If you are not familiar with Visual Watermark, we recomend you to begin using in the wisard mode.

You need to accomplish 4 steps to protect your pictures:

Step 1. Select the files you want to protect
Step 2. Select the watermark you want to embed
Step 3. Configure resize
Step 4. Configure output

Step 1. Select the files you want to protect

To specify which files must be processed, put the files you need into the image list.

Standard mode Wizard mode

This can be done in one of the following ways:

Drag the pictures to the image list from the Windows Explorer
Or use the Add button
Or use the Image List menu item in the Standard mode.

You can add a group of files, a folder or a group of folders.

Adding a group of files. Press the Add button.
Adding a folder without subfolders. Press the triangle near the Add button and then select Add Folder Only item.

Adding a folder with subfolders. Press the triangle near the Add button and then select Add Folder With Subfolders item.

Excluding Files. If you don’t want to process some files, remove them from the image list. Select one or more files in the image list and press the Remove button or the Delete key on the keyboard. To select all files, press Ctrl+A. To delete all files from the image list, use the Clear button.

If you are in the Standard mode you can also do all of the actions above using the Image List menu item.

Note: If you remove a file from the list, it won’t be remove from the hard disk.

Step 2. Select the watermark you want to embed

You can open an existing watermark, or create a new one using the Create and Open buttons respectively or also using the Watermark menu item (in the Standard mode).

Standard mode Wizard mode

Create New watermark. Press the Create button.
Open Existing Watermark.Press the Open button.
Open Sample Watermark. Press the arrow near the Open button and select the Open Sample Watermark menu item.

Then you can edit your watermark in Watermark Editor. Every watermark can contain graphics, text and JPEG properties.

Step 3. Configure resize

You can change image size using the resize tab of the Output Settings dialog in the Standard mode.This dialog appears if you check the Resize item on in the Wizard mode.

Standard mode Wizard mode

Step 4. Configure output

You can change output settings using the Destination tab of the Output settings dialog. This dialog appears automatically.

Standard mode Wizard mode

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