watermarks on digital pictures

[Ricko]

Bloke:

You could do this with GIMP (get it free from sourceforge.net) using these instructions http://news.softpedia.com/news/Learning ... 9872.shtml

Gimp runs on anything and is free...

[The Big Ben]

I'm not sure what computer you are running but I put the search items:

photograph watermark Windows software

into Google and got a list of possibilities. I didn't root through them but the first few were about $40 dollars and there might be some adequate ones for less.

I did the same search substituting Macintosh for Windows and got the another long list of possiblities. If just want something to make watermarks, this is the route to take.

However, if you have a graphics program, as the last poster suggested, look through the help files and you should be able to figure it out.

GIMP is very powerful but the learning curve can be steep because of all the features. It's 'as good' as Photoshop and is free. If you need/want to buy a graphics program to mess with photos and do watermarks, Photoshop Elements is good. It has about 50% of the capabilities of Photoshop but everything a simple user needs. If you are using a Macintosh, iPhoto which comes with modern Macs should be able to do what you want.

Jeff "I want that copper Marzan!" Benedict

[Rick F]

If you have Photo-Shop 5.5 or higher on your computer, you can do it by following this 'how-to' link:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photos ... ermark.htm

Or... there are a number of free programs that will can do this.

http://www.newfreedownloads.com/find/watermarks.html

I've not tried any of these myself however.

[Rick Denney]

Of course they are not tamper-proof, but what is the technology involved?

The copper rotary Marzan-thing is getting tiresome (this time: almost up to two grand so far), and I've had pics stolen off eBay quite a few times.

At least some watermarks would cause someone a bit of bother.

Is there a program I can download to do this?

I would kinda like to put as a translucent watermark across my eBay pics.

I use AIS Watermarker. It applies a transparent water mark to any group of graphics files as a batch process. I was able to watermark all the images on my website in less than an hour using it, including copying the images to my hard disk, marking them, and returning them to my ISP server.

It's not free, but then good stuff isn't. This was the best I found that would do batch processes. It's cheaper than a good, windows-based graphics editor that has the easily accessible.

http://www.watermarker.com/watermark-protector/

This took ten minutes, including the time required to dig this image up off my web page, mark it, and find a spot to put it:



Rick "thinking this would be pretty hard to clean off" Denney