Batch Copyright

docwalker

I apologize if this has been covered before. I did a search and did not find ehat I am looking for.

I am looking for an easy way to batch apply a copyright to my images. I am not into photoshop or other editing software as I am usually happy with my initial results from the camera.

Has anyone found a good copyright tool that I can apply to images? I want to keep my originals at home apply a copyright to my online images. If someone want to buy the original witout the copyright mark, they can deal with me directly.

I like the PROOF took on smugmug, but I need something a little less obtrusive to put a mark on the photo edge. Granted it can be cropped out.

Doc

Nikolai

Check this out
http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/32400/

HTH

pmccurdy

ImageMagick

docwalker wrote:

I am looking for an easy way to batch apply a copyright to my images.
Doc

In what operating system?

For any flavor of Unix (including Linux and Mac OSX) you can get a fantastically powerfull set of command line tools called ImageMagick. It is free (GPL). There is a version for Windows, but I don't know if it includes the command stuff so handy for batch jobs.

See the ImageMagick site for more info on these tools.

Also, see here for a tutorial on using ImageMagick for watermarking.

It looks more complicated than it is. Once you get your watermark figured out, the rest is quite easy.

Cheers,

Patrick

Safari

docwalker wrote:

I am looking to put a mark on the photo edge. Granted it can be cropped out.
Doc

I've used Exifer to put on a date stamp, you could certainly do a "Copyright....". It took me some experimentation to find the right offsets from the margin and the right font size, but it worked. Tip: start with what might seem like large numbers. I don't remember what I setttled on, but you might try "30" for the font size and both offsets. Be sure to watermark a copy, not your original file.
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/

docwalker

Nikolai,

That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

now I need to figure out how to remove and replace all of my images from smugmug with my marked images. Any ideas on that ?

Doc