Exporting Photos from Smug WITH Watermark

printergirl

I don't watermark my photos in any program because I have my SmugMug account do it for me. I have a client I need to send a batch of hi-res photos to, but I want to make sure she gets them with my watermark in the corner. Is there any way for me to export a gallery of photos from SmugMug WITH the SM watermark in place? I hate to set up an action and have to import them all into PS just to watermark a couple of them like this, when the watermark is already in place on SM. Of course, if I do an "owner save" from SM it downloads without the watermark.

jmphotocraft

I assume your images are right click protected. But if not, just right click and save. If they are "protected", they really aren't. They are still able to be saved (by anybody) by taking them from the browser's cache. I forget where this is for IE (something like Tools, Internet Options, blah blah, View Files) but in Firefox go Tools, Page Info, Media, and all the images on the current page are in there. Or you can just do a screenshot.

This is why for any images you don't want stolen, you need a good watermark. But kids will still screenshot or get them out of cache for use on spacebook or myface, which is why you want your url and/or contact info in the watermark.

And there's no way to get all the watermarked images as a batch.

tjk60

printergirl wrote:

I don't watermark my photos in any program because I have my SmugMug account do it for me. I have a client I need to send a batch of hi-res photos to, but I want to make sure she gets them with my watermark in the corner. Is there any way for me to export a gallery of photos from SmugMug WITH the SM watermark in place? I hate to set up an action and have to import them all into PS just to watermark a couple of them like this, when the watermark is already in place on SM. Of course, if I do an "owner save" from SM it downloads without the watermark.

I use Faststone resizer to WM:

http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

amazingly simple

jchin

I use FastStone Image Viewer (kind of the big brother to Resizer):
http://faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Free and amazingly simple to use.
You can batch watermark with a graphic and/or text overlay.
Oh and it re-sizes too.
And adds borders (several).
Just an amazing little program.

Allen

printergirl wrote:

I don't watermark my photos in any program because I have my SmugMug account do it for me. I have a client I need to send a batch of hi-res photos to, but I want to make sure she gets them with my watermark in the corner. Is there any way for me to export a gallery of photos from SmugMug WITH the SM watermark in place? I hate to set up an action and have to import them all into PS just to watermark a couple of them like this, when the watermark is already in place on SM. Of course, if I do an "owner save" from SM it downloads without the watermark.

Only generated display sizes will be watermarked not originals. The best
you can do is send them the largest display size like X3Large. Go to
"share" button > "get a link" and copy that size. Send them the link or you can
open in the link in your browser and save the photo. There is an app that will
d/l these, see AlbumFetcher" here.

ColoradoSkier

If you use Lightroom, you might want to try using LR/2 Mogrify and Imagemagick (link is to a short blog entry about them).

SamirD

printergirl wrote:

I don't watermark my photos in any program because I have my SmugMug account do it for me. I have a client I need to send a batch of hi-res photos to, but I want to make sure she gets them with my watermark in the corner. Is there any way for me to export a gallery of photos from SmugMug WITH the SM watermark in place? I hate to set up an action and have to import them all into PS just to watermark a couple of them like this, when the watermark is already in place on SM. Of course, if I do an "owner save" from SM it downloads without the watermark.

If I was in your situation, I would just copy the images you want them to have access to another gallery (or re-upload them if that's quicker), set the largest size for x3 and then remove right-click protection. This way, the client can save whatever they want and you don't have to do any work.