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Looking for a free or cheap WaterMark program

post #1 of 17
9/5/09 at 12:20am
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Its been driving me nuts not being able to watermark my Pic's before posting them on line.
I plan to attend a big race next week & plan to take lots of Pic's & then share them on line & MUST watermark them 1st.

They're nothing fancy.

Just enough for people to know I took the picture.

I have the latest greatest MacBook Pro 15 & need what ever free or Cheap download thats easy to use on my LapTop.

Thank you very much , in advance for any help you can provide me.
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post #2 of 17
9/5/09 at 12:31am
Hmm almost any decent image editor should be able to do this. For instance Gimp is open source (Free) and can do it(Not certain if Seashore can do it). But most people actually make the watermark image beforehand and use something like imagemagick to add it to images automatically, particularly when dealing with CMS systems for websites this can be automated, but even without them you can do it via a simple script on OS X, and in fact may already be several scripts out there available to do this.

Seablade
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post #3 of 17
9/5/09 at 12:35am
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I suppose I should mentioned that I'm use to using PhotoShop CS on my Dell computer.
& the process that goes along with that.

Are you saying do a google search for Gimp?
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post #4 of 17
9/5/09 at 10:52am
Photoshop CS is more than capable of doing this as well.

Seablade
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post #5 of 17
9/5/09 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by Seablade View Post
Photoshop CS is more than capable of doing this as well.

Seablade
Yes thats what I use to use, but its for windows, not Mac..
So I'm forced to find something else.

& as I said I want it free or at least very cheap.
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post #6 of 17
9/5/09 at 6:28pm
Use GIMP as suggested above. It works fine (and FREE) on OS X.

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

cheers ...
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post #7 of 17
9/5/09 at 8:45pm
You need to install X11 before using Gimp, if it is not already installed you can find it on your OS discs to install.

Seablade
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post #8 of 17
9/6/09 at 12:00am
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Originally Posted by Seablade View Post
You need to install X11 before using Gimp, if it is not already installed you can find it on your OS discs to install.

Seablade
Maybe, thats why GIMP makes no sense to me??
I down loaded it but I cant understand it?....


Do any of you know anything about Imagewell??
Someone on another site recomended that...?
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post #9 of 17
9/6/09 at 1:11am
Don't know anything about Imagewell.

What exactly don't you understand about Gimp? Especially if you use Photoshop you should be able to find your way through the basics of Gimp without much problem.

Seablade
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post #10 of 17
9/6/09 at 1:46am
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Don't know anything about Imagewell.

What exactly don't you understand about Gimp? Especially if you use Photoshop you should be able to find your way through the basics of Gimp without much problem.

Seablade
Let me spend some time with it & I'll get back you with questons..
At this point I dont even see how to get Pic's to it, Yet I must admit I've not spent much time with it yet.
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post #11 of 17
9/6/09 at 1:47am
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Oh & it seems X11 was already on my laptop, or it uploaded with gimp?
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post #12 of 17
9/6/09 at 2:01am
It might be X11 installs with Leopard and newer by default, I honestly can't remember, and didn't bother to check on this install as I needed to upgrade it for Inkscape anyways.

To open a picture in it... go to File > Open...
To import a different picture as a layer in the same image File > Open As Layer

So to do basic watermarking, I would Open the image you want to watermark, open the watermark as a new layer. Resize as appropriate. Adjust opacity as needed. Export/Save as a PNG or JPG, whichever you prefer.

Seablade
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post #13 of 17
9/6/09 at 2:02am
The only thing I could think of possibly confusing about it would be that the menu bar for the program is in the main/document window for Gimp, not at the top like most Mac OS X programs. This is true of any software run in X11.

But that is about all I can think of.

Seablade
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post #14 of 17
9/6/09 at 6:19am
Youtube offers loads of step-by-step and specific tasks about using GIMP. For a free tool, it is quite powerful.

cheers ...
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post #15 of 17
9/7/09 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
Youtube offers loads of step-by-step and specific tasks about using GIMP. For a free tool, it is quite powerful.

cheers ...
Yeah so true!!
I learned about that with I Movie.. Thanks for reminding me.
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post #16 of 17
9/16/09 at 6:54pm
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This is driving me CRAZY!!!!

Can someone give me an easy to follow step by step how to watermark my Pic's with gimp?

I can get sorta close & then start pulling my hair out!!! ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!
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post #17 of 17
9/16/09 at 8:25pm
First Step, create the Watermark. Don't worry about opacity of the watermark, just create the image that will be the watermark. You will need to make sure that the background is alpha(Transparent)

Second Step, Open the image you want to watermark.

Third Step Import the watermark created in step one as a new layer. Make sure this layer is on top, then adjust the opacity in the layer dialog to the desired opactiy for your watermark.

Fourth Step, save the image as the desired final format. Flatten the image while saving it.

Really if I go much more detailed than this you are asking me for a primer on image creation and editing, which is an entire book in itself, and something you should know if you were already doing this in photoshop.

How about asking specific questions on what is giving you problems?

Seablade
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