Calling smart computer people.....

This might be odd, but...

I photograph my work on weekly basis for billing purposes and for documentation.

I'm doing work now for another shop, my photos are showing up on their website. It looks (to an outsider) that his shop is doing my fab work, which they are not capable of doing. Long story. [Rant2]

My question is..
Is there a way to stamp my photos when I download them on my computer? I use Mac and Iphoto and can easily do 100 photos a week. Is there a way to easily mark the photos I take somehow with "tinelement" before I burn on a disk and send out to customers?? It's a lot of pictures, 100 per week is 5200 per year. So I don't want to have to do each and every one individually. Is there a photo program I can buy?? Run them through an online program?? Just trying to protect my work, so if my pics are posted they have my name stamped on them.

Thanks for any advice!
[Beer]

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Originally Posted by Tinelement

This might be odd, but...

I photograph my work on weekly basis for billing purposes and for documentation.

I'm doing work now for another shop, my photos are showing up on their website. It looks (to an outsider) that his shop is doing my fab work, which they are not capable of doing. Long story. [Rant2]

My question is..
Is there a way to stamp my photos when I download them on my computer? I use Mac and Iphoto and can easily do 100 photos a week. Is there a way to easily mark the photos I take somehow with "tinelement" before I burn on a disk and send out to customers?? It's a lot of pictures, 100 per week is 5200 per year. So I don't want to have to do each and every one individually. Is there a photo program I can buy?? Run them through an online program?? Just trying to protect my work, so if my pics are posted they have my name stamped on them.

Thanks for any advice!
[Beer]

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Never mind; you said didn't want to do each one. Sorry

Photoshop can do watermarks etc. you can process a whole batch of images automatically with a few clicks. I think elements will do it too and it's like $80.

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Originally Posted by bogie

Photoshop can do watermarks etc. you can process a whole batch of images automatically with a few clicks. I think elements will do it too and it's like $80.

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I'll look into this. Thanks.

A few options showed up when i searched "watermark program" in Google.

You will have to buy a program and process all the photos through that program in order to watermark them. It can be set up to batch, so it's done automatically to every photo you download from your camera/phone through that program (instead of iPhoto/whatever), but you will have to set up that process and use the program to process them rather than simply download them from your phone with the program you're using now.

Personally I'd rather batch and watermark on export rather import from camera keep my originals clean....


like others said just google "batch watermark OS X" and a ton of options will pop up .. the first few I looked at all had free trials and to buy cost in the 20-40 range...


read a few pages on them and download and test the ones you like the sound of best.

Thanks for the info gents.
I'll do some research now that I have the terminology. Don't mind spending a few bucks on something. Some of these builds go $100k plus. Would hate lose work cause someone is hacking my shit.

Abobe Acrobat has a watermark option in Documents.

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Originally Posted by Tinelement

Thanks for the info gents.
I'll do some research now that I have the terminology. Don't mind spending a few bucks on something. Some of these builds go $100k plus. Would hate lose work cause someone is hacking my shit.

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Quick search showed iWatermark as a plugin for iPhone and Mac iPhoto.

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/13758/iwatermark-pro

I would also make a call to the other shop and ask them to remove your pictures from there website. They know exactly what they are doing by using a sub contractors work to hawk there wares.

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Originally Posted by brutal

Quick search showed iWatermark as a plugin for iPhone and Mac iPhoto.

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/13758/iwatermark-pro

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Thanks. Video looks user friendly.

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Originally Posted by jerrymrc

I would also make a call to the other shop and ask them to remove your pictures from there website. They know exactly what they are doing by using a sub contractors work to hawk there wares.

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Absolutely. Im waiting on some feedback so I have more than my "personal" opinion on it.

The bad thing I have found in the past about using something that auto applies the watermark is that because it's using the same spot for every photo sometimes the details of what you are trying to show in the picture are covered up.

i believe i had a camera at one time that would do it when the photo was taken.

https://www.watermark.ws/
Can do batch work....

Google Picasa can do this. It is a photo program for both Mac and PC. Its easy to use, provides, organizing, editing, watermarking, photo hosting and is FREE!

https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/106193?hl=en

Here's the problem, A kid with a cracked version of Photoshop can remove your watermark as fast as you can put it on, or even simpler solution, they just crop out the area where the Watermark is.

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Originally Posted by DocMedic

Here's the problem, A kid with a cracked version of Photoshop can remove your watermark as fast as you can put it on, or even simpler solution, they just crop out the area where the Watermark is.

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Flatten the image to make it a little tougher, and put the watermark in in such a way as to make cropping more difficult, striking a balance between obscuring detail and making the watermark more difficult to remove.

FYI, Photoshop CS2 is free now.

ImageMagick.. Its free.. It does everything you want. Its a collection of tools that manipulate photos based on command lines.

For example the command to water mark your images with your logo/name/whatever.. would be:

composite -dissolve 50% -quality 100 your_input_file.jpg your_watermark_logo_name_whatever.jpg output_file_name.jpg

or

composite -watermark <percentage_you_want_logo_to_show_through> -gravity south your_watermark_logo_name_whatever.jpg your_input_file.jpg output_file_name.jpg


It works on batches, is stupid fast, and can do sooooooooooooo much more.

More examples: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ann...g/#wmark_image

My wife has all kinds of photo software including photoshop, I am sure she would do them for you. cadetcandi on here.

Two things:

If you are applying a watermark and don't want it removed put the water mark across the center and then take a screen shot of it. There will be no easy way to "fix" that in any program unless they "photoshop" it.

Second, then use some type of stenography on it with a copyright statement. Just Google it. Do this on the "screenshot" version stated above. Even if they do photoshop it you should still be able to prove they are your pics.

Hope this helps

Ignore the screenshot thing above.. It doesn't help.

If you want to embed some stuff into the image that doesn't show up in the actual rendering but is there in the file PM me and I can show you a fun trick using the *nix command 'cat' (its on your mac already).

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Originally Posted by asmo

Ignore the screenshot thing above.. It doesn't help.

If you want to embed some stuff into the image that doesn't show up in the actual rendering but is there in the file PM me and I can show you a fun trick using the *nix command 'cat' (its on your mac already).

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Curios why you think the screenshot is a bad idea and just 'cat'ing into the header is not stego. That is easy to remove. Use a real tool to do it. Share with the world your trick. Love to see new things.

I use FaStone Resizer to add a watermark and rename my photos in batches (I usually take around 3000 pictures on a good vacation, about 200-300 per day). It's free and works better than Image Magick for my purposes. You can create your own mask as a JPG or PNG and apply it across the image. I usually use 50-75% transparency on a gray font when I want it to be subtle.