Avidemux
I already talked about this program in an article about the best visual content editors. You can read it or go straight to the download page.
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The main purpose is gluing together clips, trimming, converting to another type, applying filters, adjusting color, brightness, etc. But the built-in functionality allows you to add watermarks to the content.
WonderFox Photo Watermark
Frankly, of all the solutions, I liked this one the most. A very attractive interface, step-by-step processing, tips at each stage, a large selection of templates and “stickers”. In addition to images and text, you can even add animation to pictures. Of course, it is possible to run a process for a batch of files, rather than for a single element.
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Water signs
- These are images or seals that manufacturers apply to an image or sheet of text to protect their copyright. In the printing industry, before the advent of digital technology, paper makers had to take rubber stamps and drop them into a large cylinder. In addition, it was necessary to add sulfuric acid to blocks of wood, lowered into tanks of water in order to break the wood fibers. All this was done in order to create a so-called suspension - a liquid cement mixture.
Then, this mixture was placed on “screens”. As the mixture dried, it gradually formed paper. At this stage, manufacturers passed the dried mixture between two rotating cylinders, one of which had a rubber stamp, to squeeze out the liquid. The result was a sheet of paper with a watermark.
In today's digital printing world, the watermarking process has evolved significantly. There are many different tools you can use to apply your watermark in a matter of seconds.
1.WaterMark 0.0.1
NO INSTALLATION REQUIRED
WaterMark is an image manipulation tool that comes with free source code and uses Java code. The tool allows you to edit digital images. WaterMark 0.0.1 allows you to process image streams. With WaterMark, you can perform 4 main functions:
* Select the main image; * Select a watermark image; * Indicate the location of the watermark; * Select the location of the output file.
2.Fast Water Mark
NO INSTALLATION REQUIRED
BiggerBids' watermarking utility gives you many features, including the ability to set any image as your watermark. The app also allows you to put your logo on your images. The BiggerBids tool also offers various features for managing watermarks. The application provides the ability to:
* Watermark alignment; * Set indents; * Change the size of the watermark.
3.PicMarkr
NO INSTALLATION REQUIRED
PicMarkr (ONLINE SERVICE)
PicMarkr is a watermarking tool that is very popular among Flickr users. The tool offers the ability to create a minimalist design scheme, use standard and unique colors, and the ability to create simple layouts. The application's unique options allow PicMarkr to be called a full-fledged, powerful tool for creating watermarks. You can apply your logo to several images at once (but usually the size is limited to 25MB). The application allows you to:
* Use images from your hard drive; * Add text; * Propagate the water sign; * Scale the image.
4. Visual Watermark
Price:
$19.95 (with free trial)
Visual Watermark is a great watermarking tool that helps keep your images and pictures safe from being used by others. This tool also offers you a mode for processing multiple images at once, which significantly reduces time costs.
With this utility you can add translucent color watermarks to digital photos. A watermark can be either a specific logo or a link to a website. You can list the benefits of the application for a long time, here are some of them:
* Ability to edit specific watermarks via a graphical interface; * Ability to save the watermark for later use in different projects; * Ability to rotate watermarks.
I hope it is useful to someone...
Image Tuner
As the name suggests, this is not a simple utility, but a full-fledged optimizer and editor. Contains many useful tools for batch photo editing. Groups of files can be renamed, compressed, resized, adjusted color balance, contrast, brightness and much more.
- Quickly changes file size (resolution and weight);
- Converts between popular image formats;
- Adds watermarks to photos;
- Automatically adjusts images for publication on social networks;
- Adapts photos to the screens of Apple mobile gadgets.
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How to put a watermark on a photo in IrfanView
Now we will use the free program IrfanView to insert a watermark into a photo. In the IrfanView program, you can add text to an image or a watermark, which is another image prepared in advance.
Follow these steps:
- Open the photo in IrfanView.
- Go to the "Edit" menu, select "Add watermark...".
- In the “Add watermark” window, select values for the offset from the origin (from the edges of the image), the location of the watermark (“Reference”), add a graphic/text file for the watermark, and the transparency level.
- Click on the “Preview” button to view the photo with a watermark; if the parameters are correct, click on the “OK” button.
You can add multiple watermarks to one image, if necessary. In this image you can see that watermarks have been applied to the photo, IrfanView has completed this task.
- In the “File” menu, click on “Save As...”, select a location to save the photo on your computer.
In a similar way, apply text to the image in the IrfanView program.
Picture Stamper
A professional solution with a lot of possibilities. Allows you to create different schemes, which can then be used during file processing. Let's say that for some pictures you want to use a certain “watermark”, and for others you want to use a different sign. You just need to specify the template to use and the program will do everything automatically. You can adjust the size, position, and transparency of elements so that they fit optimally into the overall picture.
You don't have to make adjustments for every single image. You just need to specify the stamp parameters once, and they will automatically be applied to all selected photos.
The program works with all known graphics formats, which makes it one of the simplest and most versatile tools for working with watermarks.
You can customize in detail font sizes, color, logo dimensions, compression and transparency levels, and adding shadows.
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Watermarking digital photos with Watermark Factory
In the era of analogue photography, privacy issues were resolved quite simply - whoever is negative is right. This thesis should not be taken literally, because previously they shot on positive slides and on various plates, and there were even cameras that immediately produced photographs. But this does not change the essence. The photograph always had an original, and its author was most often the owner of the work.
The number has arrived. Everything changed. It is enough to rewrite the files, and nothing objectively prevents you from telling you - these are my photographs, I took them. We are not talking about conscience and decency now. If it determined our actions, then system administrators would not even need to set passwords. He approached the user and told him what he could and could not do - the security of the network was ensured. But this is a utopia. In life, everything is not so simple, and sometimes you have to take significant steps to ensure security and respect copyright.
The easiest way to ensure the privacy of photos is to watermark them. Of course, there are more radical methods, such as a digital signature. But it requires third-party certificates, in other words, it is tied to certain organizational issues. And to create a watermark you only need a special program. This is, as we sometimes say, cheap and cheerful. One program that allows you to add watermarks to photos is Watermark Factory.
Watermark Factory main window
When you first look at the application, there are clear parallels with Mandriva Linux. Designers at Watermark Factory clearly borrowed inspiration from Galaxy and la Ora. This is not to say that this is bad from an aesthetic point of view. The design of the French Linux distribution and a small application for creating watermarks is very elegant and stylish.
The left side of the application working window contains a list of processed documents. The program allows you to work in batch mode, so you can not just open one image and put a “secret” stamp on it, but apply this operation, for example, to all images of the current directory. As a result, you can open both individual documents and entire folders. When opening images, you can select several documents within the catalog at once. It is possible to display them in the form of thumbnails, as well as using a list, which, although called Details, does not open any new fields.
In addition to adding watermarks, the program supports some simple manipulations related to image correction. The first of them carries out cropping of photographs.
Cropping in Watermark Factory
The frame composition is very primitive. You simply highlight its useful area. There is no way to specify the aspect ratio. You can't just force the program to maintain the original proportions. For example, most DSLR cameras use a 3:2 aspect ratio. This is convenient, as it allows you to print cards without borders, and without cutting off part of the frame along its long side. Most graphics programs will at least allow you to maintain the original aspect ratio. But in Watermark Factory you have to act, as they say, by eye.
In addition to cropping, you can style your photos. It consists of adding effects on the borders of a photo, and also allows you to create frames from masks.
Styling photos in Watermark Factory
Styling consists of choosing an effect on the border of the photo and indicating its shape. It supports softening the borders of the photo, adding a shadow, applying extrusion, and combining the last two effects. In addition, you can change the shape of the corners of photos. By default, pictures are strictly rectangular in shape. You can round corners according to several rules. The last illustration shows three options for image shapes. During framing, you can see two versions of the photo - the original one and the one with styles applied.
Adding frames as masks in Watermark Factory
The second option for styling photos is to add masks from which frames are created. The program offers a huge selection of masks. You can stretch them depending on the aspect ratio of the frame or leave the original proportions and just scale them. In addition, masks can be rotated to an arbitrary angle, reflected horizontally or vertically, and chosen a color.
Viewing Images in Watermark Factory
After completing the preparations for adding a watermark, you can view the resulting photos. Viewing is carried out in full screen. You can snap the scale to its boundaries or use the actual size. In the second case, navigation through the photo is carried out by holding the left mouse button in combination with moving the pointer. Another option is to control scroll bars. The keyboard is inactive, the navigation buttons do not control viewing, and do not scroll through pictures. You can move to adjacent documents only using the Prev Image and Next Image buttons.
When you switch to watermark mode, you see a list of watermarks. By default it is empty. It is possible to add text or pictures.
Adding a text watermark in Watermark Factory
Adding a text watermark consists of three main steps - entering text, specifying its effects, and designing the background. After you have entered the text, you can specify the font, its size, and style (italized, bold). The inscription may consist of several lines. They can be formatted using left, right, and center alignment. The inscription can have arbitrary transparency. The text can be applied in any color.
The general properties of a caption allow you to specify its position in a photograph. The default is the bottom right corner. It is allowed to indicate any of the angles, any of the sides, as well as apply a watermark in the center of the photo. In all cases, it is possible to specify an offset relative to the “ideal” position of the inscription.
You can use pre-prepared templates. For example, you can place many small inscriptions throughout the photo area. On the one hand, they do not attract much attention, but they will completely protect the document from illegal copying, because no one will believe that a picture was taken with a lot of letters in the frame at once. Text watermarks allow you to use EXIF data. You can put information on the photo about the camera settings during shooting.
Effects fall into two categories. You can add a shadow or create a punched-out effect. In the first case, its direction, distance, transparency, color are indicated. In the second case, you specify the extrusion method - forward or inward.
The watermark can be placed in a frame. Specify the corner smoothing radius, background transparency, and background color. You can also specify the thickness of the lines separately for each side.
Adding a graphic watermark in Watermark Factory
Adding graphic watermarks involves using the built-in image library or loading custom images from your hard drive. The program offers a large set of emblems in the form of colorful inscriptions or some signs, for example, a radiation symbol. Some pictures consist of both design elements and text. As with text, you can rotate images to any angle, choose their position on the page, and change transparency. The extrusion effect can be used. In this case, the color component of the emblems is lost.
Application settings allow you to specify rules for naming final documents. They can consist of a text prefix and a numeric suffix. You indicate the number of characters, as well as the number from which document numbering should begin. It is also possible to automatically resize the image while adding a watermark. In this case, it is possible to sharpen the images, and, if necessary, replace the alpha channel with an arbitrary color. The final documents can be saved in JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP or TGA formats. You can save your current watermark settings and document sets as projects.
Watermark Factory is a highly specialized program. Its purpose is exclusively to work with watermarks. But in this area she shows herself to be good. Adding various inscriptions and pictures to photos using Watermark Factory is really convenient, especially since all operations can be performed in batch mode.
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We go to the site, where we are immediately asked to choose the type of “sign” - text or graphic:
Once you decide, you will see a simple form:
We make the necessary settings. If anything is unclear, move the mouse cursor to “?” and we get a hint. By moving to the next step, you will see the result. All that remains is to right-click on the picture and select save.
That's all! If you have questions, please ask them in the comments. You may need detailed instructions for these programs - please contact us!
Placing a logo on a photograph: methods, services and options
Of the variety of existing methods for applying a watermark to an image, we will consider the most efficient and accessible ones. They will not only reduce the time for creating and applying a logo to a photo
, but will also allow you to significantly save your budget.
Online services for logo application
Watermark.ws
Users of this service are counted in units of millions. The service is maximally accessible not only in its full functionality, but also in the numerous features of the free version. You can mark 5 photos or videos at the same time. Additionally, they can be slightly adjusted. There is calligraphy in the menu itself that can be used for text watermarks.
Watermarkly
This service allows you to quickly and freely work online with photos from Dropbox, Google archives or storage media. Everything is very simple and effective. The logo is ranked according to all parameters and can be supplemented with any text. You can simultaneously process a large volume of images without losing site speed, and you can also configure additional automatic selection of logo placement on the photo.
WATERMARK.RF
The site explains in the most basic way how to apply a logo to a photo online
absolutely
free
. Moreover, up to 10 files can be processed on the site at the same time, with the only limitation being size. Only 1 mb is allocated for each display.
Photoshop is one of the most popular tools
Perhaps this is the most functional tool for working with images for a non-professional user. But even when working with Photoshop, there are still many questions about how to apply a logo to a photo. Let's figure out how to put a watermark on a photo using Photoshop.
To apply a logo to one photo, you only need to perform a series of simple manipulations.
We open tabs in the editor program not only for the image, but also for the logo. You can make a brush with a logo and simply drag it over the necessary places in the image. To do this, create a new document {File Create}.
Enter the file parameters width/height (2500*2000), resolution (300). Click “OK”. Here the third tab appears (empty).
Copy the logo, paste it into a new document and add the necessary adjustments. In the top panel, find “Edit” and select “Define Brush”, save.
Now the palette of brushes has been replenished with our logo, which can be applied to each image at any convenient time, changing only the transparency level, color and size.
Take a look at the video. Below are instructions in video format.
The built-in editor also allows you to apply a logo to an entire package of images. Let's open 2 windows, in one the logo, in the other an image. Let's create a third window where the operation will be recorded. Let's write a script here that will be automatically applied to each next photo.
Window with operations, select the icon with a white sheet, enter a name and press record. Open the window with the logo and use the combinations: CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+D. In the window with the image, press CTRL+V, adjust the size and placement, use CTRL+E.
Save, close and stop recording. To automatically apply a watermark to other photos, in the “File” section, select “Automation” and “Batch Processing” will appear here. Fill it out and click “Save”. Select a folder to label. The process of applying the logo is underway.
Here is a detailed video instruction.
How to put a logo on a photo in Android
SALT
This application is available both for paid and free access, the only difference is in the amount of functionality. But even in a free format, using this application you can quickly and easily insert a logo into a photo in the form of an image or text. The user can edit no more than 40 photos for free.
WaterMark
The application is absolutely free. With its help, you can not just apply a watermark to a photo, but to an entire album/folder. Here you can also edit the sign and make the necessary text changes. This application is especially useful for all photo bank users; here you can apply a watermark not only to one area of the image, but also completely cover it. In this case, the photo will be completely protected from unauthorized use.
LogoLicio
Fast and free tagging of photos and images. It even supports .gif logo files, you just need to upload everything (along with a photo) and create the required version. The finished result can not only be downloaded, but also shared online.
