Change watermark opacity, gallery still old opacity?

JimKarczewski

So, I changed the opacity of a watermark in my galleries. The new galleries work just fine. But the older ones still are drawn with the more obvious and less transparent watermark.

What do I have to do to make Smugmug regenerate the pics with the new opacity level? Remove then re-activate watermarks???

jfriend

You have to manually reapply the new watermark to the desired images. In a gallery, you go to Tools/Many Photos/More/Watermarking and reapply the watermark to the desired images.

WinsomeWorks

JimKarczewski wrote: »

So, I changed the opacity of a watermark in my galleries. The new galleries work just fine. But the older ones still are drawn with the more obvious and less transparent watermark.

What do I have to do to make Smugmug regenerate the pics with the new opacity level? Remove then re-activate watermarks???

If you want to be sure that the old watermark has truly disappeared from all display sizes of the photos, you're best off going to Tools/Many Photos/More/Watermarking and un-watermarking all of them first. If you don't have that many galleries, you should even do that twice. Then go back and watermark (using the same tool) with the new version. If you have tons of galleries, you can just watermark them, but you'll be likely to now & then find the old watermark on some sizes of your photo. You could do the full procedure just a few galleries at a time, in order, til you have them all finished.

Andy

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

If you want to be sure that the old watermark has truly disappeared from all display sizes of the photos, you're best off going to Tools/Many Photos/More/Watermarking and un-watermarking all of them first. If you don't have that many galleries, you should even do that twice. Then go back and watermark (using the same tool) with the new version. If you have tons of galleries, you can just watermark them, but you'll be likely to now & then find the old watermark on some sizes of your photo. You could do the full procedure just a few galleries at a time, in order, til you have them all finished.

This isn't necessary. If you see the old watermarked copy, it's just a local cached version out on the CDN that will disappear. If an old copy persists, please write our Support Heroes with link to the image and we'll check it out.

WinsomeWorks

Andy wrote: »

This isn't necessary. If you see the old watermarked copy, it's just a local cached version out on the CDN that will disappear. If an old copy persists, please write our Support Heroes with link to the image and we'll check it out.

Aargh. We've been through this so many times. The advice I just gave came directly from one of the support heroes who went through the whole thing with me and even called. This is a known issue. It's not just a few old copies that disappear eventually. Every couple weeks I'll still find a photo in some certain size that has an old watermark on it that I used to use over a year ago. The problem is, few of us notice them because we typically aren't going through our galleries and looking at photos on every page at, say, medium size. The support hero (sorry, I don't recall his name and haven't found the old email or I'd quote it for you) told me the only fail-safe way to do this correctly is to un-watermark first. He told me all the technical reasons why it happens, which I've long forgotten. Believe me, I would not make this up, because it's a pain to do it-- which is why I still haven't gotten to all galleries and still find old watermarks now and then.