Adding (C) watermark

LIPhotoman

I am uploading to Smugmug from Lightroom, and want to have a Copyright watermark on my photos.
When using the Uploader, I've clicked "Add copyright watermark" but when I look at my pics, I see no copyright mark on the photos.
Is this something available only to Pro accounts?
Or only visible to Viewers & not seen by me when I view my photos?

Thanks for any advice!

Steve Cavigliano

Hi LI,
Watermarking of display copies is a Pro feature. So unless you wish to watermark your original files (not recommended), you will not be able to use watermarks

If the images are watermarked, either by you before uploading. Or, by us. The watermarking would be visible to all.

If you still have questions, please contact the Help Desk and give them a link to one of your galleries. They will investigate and reply to you.

Steve

Tarsnakes

By way of feedback, I am disappointed that a watermark is only available on a Pro account, as it was no big deal on my prior image repository. Cheers.

jogle

the "add copyright watermark" in the lightroom exporter has nothing to do with the smugmug watermarking. It takes the text from the copyright field in each photos metadata and prints it in the lower left corner of your photo on export.

It's a bit useless though as there are no settings for it so for most people the text is so small it's impossible to see unless you zoom in.

Some quick googling brought up this info about it.
http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00N4Pb
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/1.0/help.html?content=WSDAC0F341-F118-44e9-A81A-CD4F969CBD72.html
http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/video-tip-watermarking-your-photos/