One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given about product photography was to always watermark your photos - 1. it identifies the piece as yours and not for copy, and 2. it's great reinforcement of the makers brand/business name.
And so I've always done it - but to be honest, it's not been my favourite task because it's always taken so long to individually edit each photo and copy and paste a watermark to each one.
Now you do know I like to share any exciting, time-saving finds with my fellow creatives, so today, I thought I'd share my recent discovery of the rather wonderful
Visual Watermark program which in a nutshell is a batch watermarking software. I cannot tell you how much I love it!
It was low cost - US$19.99 (one off), packed with features, and super easy to use. I'll leave you to go check out the nitty gritty of just what it can do ... http://www.visualwatermark.com/.
But here's a quick visual of how it works for me...
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| I add all the photos I want to watermark |
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| My Watermark is saved so I don't even have to do the next few steps, I skip right to the end of saving my watermark to all the photos, but if I wanted to do a new one. I would start here by adding my water mark logo/and or text |
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| This is my logo which I want to reduce down, change the opacity etc. Easily done with all the options on the right |
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| So you can see the edited logo bottom left, now I want to add some text, change it's colour, font, size etc |
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| Starting to take shape. If I want I can also add a photo border as part of my watermark process |
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| Here's where the placement of the watermark will be on all of the photos I choose to put it on. At this point I would save the watermark so I can use it in the future and not have to do the setup process. |
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| The last step is to batch add the watermark to all the photos I have chosen. As you can see there are options for overwriting etc - super flexible! |
Do let me know if you give it a try and find it just as great as I do :-)
Hi Mel, nice to see you again, and how interesting this looks. I know I should do mine but haven't had the strength. Will definitely check it out. Hope all is good in your neck of the woods. Cheers Jane
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