Suggestion for how to Watermark many galleries at once?

BradfordBenn

So I think I have an acceptable watermark finally. Now I want to go and apply it to all my galleries. My understanding from e-mailing with the Support Heroes is that "Like passwords, watermarks will not be added when using apply to other galleries - you need to do this individually. "

So has anyone found a really cool way to do this process? I have about 180 galleries/albums and probably want to do about 150 of them.

Also has anyone found a way to have the watermark change or rotate based on orientation of the image?

I have even toyed with the idea of reuploading them all so that links are broken and the watermarks will appear, but I am not sure I want to be that draconian.

Thanks.

David Evertsen

BradfordBenn wrote:

So I think I have an acceptable watermark finally. Now I want to go and apply it to all my galleries. My understanding from e-mailing with the Support Heroes is that "Like passwords, watermarks will not be added when using apply to other galleries - you need to do this individually. "

So has anyone found a really cool way to do this process? I have about 180 galleries/albums and probably want to do about 150 of them.

Also has anyone found a way to have the watermark change or rotate based on orientation of the image?

I have even toyed with the idea of reuploading them all so that links are broken and the watermarks will appear, but I am not sure I want to be that draconian.

Thanks.

I have learned with Smugmug to have a horizontal and a vertical watermark for my images. I even have several versions based on the event I shoot so I do not obscure the most important part of it. When I create my galleries I use a pre-defined settings for the gallery but, one that is already up is one by one.. It has always been thus...

SamirD

So I think you're asking if there's a way to mass watermark existing galleries?

BradfordBenn

SamirD wrote:

So I think you're asking if there's a way to mass watermark existing galleries?

Correct. The other was a tangent

SamirD

I just looked at the multiple galleries setting and there isn't really a way to do it through gallery settings without going to each gallery. :cry

Now, here's an idea, but it will require you to re-upload every image that you want watermarked. Set a gallery to watermark from now on, and then use the 'replace photo' option in the uploader and re-upload all the photos in the gallery. These new uploads should be watermarked, I believe.

BradfordBenn

Thanks for the idea. I just instead went to the SmugMug iPhone version and using Linky in Firefox, opened every gallery in a tab. Made the selection appropriate, and then closed the tab. That way I knew what I had done and hadn't done. I should probably go check to see that they propagated.

SamirD

BradfordBenn wrote:

Thanks for the idea. I just instead went to the SmugMug iPhone version and using Linky in Firefox, opened every gallery in a tab. Made the selection appropriate, and then closed the tab. That way I knew what I had done and hadn't done. I should probably go check to see that they propagated.

I use multiple tabs like that all the time. I'm glad you found a solution.