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Title: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: masu on June 13, 2009, 05:16 AM

Hello,

which simple tool could you recommend to add watermarks to own images?

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: tinjaw on June 13, 2009, 08:06 AM

When I had a need for this I opted to go with a paid solution. I purchased Bytescout Watermarking PRO (http://bytescout.com/watermarkingpro.html). I am very happy with my purchase and do recommend it if you choose to go with a paid product.

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: AndyM on June 13, 2009, 08:46 AM

Fineprint will add a watermark to any print job (plus does a lot of other stuff).  Not free but worth the money.

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: housetier on June 13, 2009, 09:10 AM

I use and recommend imagemagick (http://imagemagick.org/script/index.php)  :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: masu on June 14, 2009, 05:19 AM

thanks for the info

Imagemick looks a little bit complicated to me. seems to be a commandline only utility?

Bytescout Watermarking PRO and Fineprint are unfortunatly not free  :(

It doesn't have to be a really powerful program, just a program where I could add a watermark to a group of images with a batch command.

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: lanux128 on June 14, 2009, 06:40 AM

you can use Picasa 3 (http://rexdelsar.com/blog/2008/09/how-to-watermark-photos-in-picasa-3/) to do that.

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: masu on June 14, 2009, 06:44 AM

Picasa can just add text as far as I can see, but is not able to add an image logo as watermark or?

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: housetier on June 14, 2009, 06:44 AM

I don't know if it seems to be a command line utility. I know it IS one.

It's just a different interface, and that might seem to make things complicated. But actually the command line interface is very straight-forward, I believe :)

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/composite.php might give an idea of the straight-forwardness.

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: lanux128 on June 14, 2009, 06:54 AM

if you don't mind using GIMP, there's a script for it: "Watermark it (http://www.td-e.com/soft/watermark-it.php)".

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: tinjaw on June 14, 2009, 09:53 AM

I looked on ByteScout's freeware page (http://bytescout.com/download_freeware.html) and they have a Lite version that is freeware.

Title: Re: which simple tool to use to add watermarks to own images
Post by: sajman99 on June 14, 2009, 03:21 PM

Maybe try the freeware Picture-Shark? http://www.picture-shark.com or http://www.photo-freeware.net/picture-shark.php