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Hola, does any one knows about watermarking? Can you do it on any photo editing software?

There are a number of photographers who apply watermarks to their images that they place on the web. The primary purpose for this is to cut down on unauthorized use of one's photographs. There are a number of packages that will do this for you, and most image processing packages, like Photoshop, will also do it.

I suggest that you do some searches through the archives of the pro talk forum on www.dpreview.com, and also take a look at the art-show list archive on Yahoo groups. Lots of discussions about this topic in both places.

I can't help you with specific software, as I do not watermark. I think it detracts from the view experience and as I sell my photographs, that is something I don't want to do.

Mitch

Thanks Mitch I´ll have a looks on the discusions. Nice site you have there
chao

Check out Imagewell if you have a Mac.

http://www.xtralean.com/IWOverview.html

If you have Photoshop, you can easily program your watermark in as an "Action."

(watermarking is NOT a good enough reason to pay for photoshop, but if you are a good enough photographer to necessitate watermarking, you probably have already own photoshop anyway.)

hey Skimaxpower, I already have Photoshop, but how do I do the watermarking?? how can I program it as an "action"?
My Photoshop is in spanish and I´m not really good at it

I don't know if this is actually helpful, but I normally just resize my photos for the web (roughly 750 px X 500 px), It makes them basically useless for anything other than the web. I know a few people (mostly friends) who "borrow" some of my pictures for their sites, but this doesn't actually bother me much (It makes me slightly proud). But if you don't mind your photos getting used only on the web, this is an easy solution, plus it makes the files small for easy uploading.

Hope it helps

Rob
My World Tour PhotoBlog

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Originally posted by SimonUribeConvers:
how can I program it as an "action"?

Adobe's website help is amazing. Really top notch. So go there for the details, but to program an action you basically:
-open action menu
-create new action
-lable new action
-hit "record" button
-proceed through steps
-unclick "record" button


now you have an action that will be repeated exactly every time you press the "play" button. Very handy for batches of .... anything.

Skimaxpower, sorry but I can´t find the action menu, where is it??
sorry.....

quote:

Originally posted by SimonUribeConvers:
Skimaxpower, sorry but I can´t find the action menu, where is it??
sorry.....

try clicking on the window menu, there should then be the option to select the 'actions' menu. (alt+F9 is the shortcut for me)

I was thinking about watermarking mine, but i've no real intention of ever selling them so there doesn't seem that much point for me. I do think it detracts from the image too.

That said if you are selling your images then I guess watermarking a smaller version is a sensible idea

Thanks Owenf and Skimaxpower, I finally did it. the problem was that I had the 5.0version of photoshop, and there´s no action what so ever. I now have a newer one (7.0) and it works , the shortcut is alt+F9 as well, thanks a lot!
I agree that watermarking does detracts from image, but I was only thinking how to do it if for any chance...
gracias y adios