Comments on: Watermarking Your Images

By: Andie Summerkiss

Andie Summerkiss — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:26:12 +0000

Hi L,

I love your site very much. You take such great photos and they are all very inspiring.

I just want to add something that I learned quite recently. I have been using Mac for two months and used Jet Photo Studio to resize my images. I just found out last night that the software can also apply watermark to photos by bulk. Just drop the jpg / png / gif file to the box (any kind of image/text) and it transforms the image to the greyish watermark. That was just wonderful because I am totally clueless on photoshop. (I am not sure if you know, but I didn’t read about this from the comment above)

Jet Photo Studio is a freeware, can be downloaded at http://www.apple.com/downloads.

By: L

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:21:24 +0000

Hi Caroline,

Sorry… I haven’t used iWaterMark, just added it here as a reference, so I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe one of our other readers will have some suggestions for you though.

-L

By: caroline

caroline — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:33:40 +0000

Hi I am new to all of this and started a blog(its all underwaterstill)
so I hope you could guide me. I use mac and had a look at iwatermark I liked it and downloaded it and now having trouble. (In photo elements I reducue the photo size to 500 pix) then i return to iwatermark add the mark on to the reduced photo)
I go into WORDPRESS(blog) and upload the watermark from watermark file and it will not.
The picture has a question mark, on it
Where and what am i doing wrong? or is it iwatermark?

By: L

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:05:17 +0000

Hi Harry,

I haven’t always watermarked my work, but have for the past 6 months or so. However, the thumbnails on the top of the page are for a group of photos that belong to a lot of different contributors… they are mostly not my photos, and you are right… most of them are not watermarked.

If you take a look at my Flickr photostream (see the 2nd group of photos labeled my photos), you’ll see a small watermark in the bottom of the image.

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:17:14 +0000

What is this about? You don’t actually HAVE any watermark on your pictures.

I mean it’s a good theoretical discussion and all, but it kind of falls apart when I click on your little thumbnails on the right and none of the large images actually have anything on them..

At last you included some examples from other people though.

By: jackie

jackie — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:13:24 +0000

Linda-I have used ACDSEE at the last photography job i had, I had no choice, on their PC laptops. It was alright, it got the job done, but I am so not a PC person, so my experience was a bit tainted by that. It was easy to use, worked well with photoshop.

And to L – thanks for this great post! I’m just starting to visit your blog more regularly, so hopefully will beable to participate in the monthly challenges! There’s a great group of photogs on this site, I’m really enjoying it.

By: L

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:18:31 +0000

Linda – I have used ACDSEE, although it has been a while. It’s always been a pretty good management app, and I know they’ve continued to do work on it. It’s as good of a place to start as any!

LV – Thank you. I know most of the time, people use photos that they like not to take them and claim them as their own… but just to show them off more. The main thing is to ask the photographer and respect their use requirements. Cheers!

-L

By: LV

LV — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:05:13 +0000

Dear L,

I have removed your photo from my blog. I apologize for not asking for permission. I used it as a grat example o food photography. IÂ´m a big fan of your site and your photos and would not like to harm you in any way.

My sincere apologies.

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By: Linda, The Village Vegetable

Linda, The Village Vegetable — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:39:01 +0000

So many bloggers are doing this now. I’ve been considering it, though I agree with Matt that it ruins many photos. I also agree that L’s is one of the more discrete options and I prefer it overall. I don’t think my photos are anything worth stealing, though they have been getting better. Maybe in a few months, I’ll have the gull.

Thanks for all the advice!

Speaking of photo management programs, the systems administrator in my company knows I’m into photography and just gave me ACDSEE Pro. Anyone used this one? Maybe it’s old school – i’m pretty technologically challenged (i’m amazed i’ve been able to learn photoshop), but it’s new to me…