Watermark can now be limited to larger display sizes

mbonocore

Hi Dgrinners,

Want to protect your images with a watermark, but don't like how they appear on a multiple photos block on your homepage? Well, we have now added the ability to only have your watermark appear on the display sizes you choose. This option will appear in the watermark edit page.

Two Things To Know:

The Tiny size display copy will no longer be watermarked, even when Thumbnails are set as the Smallest Size. This Ti size is mostly used as thumbnails for SmugMug style galleries, so new uploads won’t appear to have watermarks on their thumbnails in SM styles.

Existing Watermarks: If the Apply to Thumbs option was turned on, the Smallest Watermark Size will default to Thumbnails. If that option was off, the Smallest Watermark Size will default to Small.

dwterry

I still see watermarks on the Gallery Thumbnails on my site. Should they be gone? Is it a patience issue? (does it take time for them to go away?)

Where do I find the watermark settings in the new smugmug?

Allen

dwterry wrote: »

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Where do I find the watermark settings in the new smugmug?

Account Settings > Business > Watermarks > Manage
Click edit on watermark to see new settings

Eltano

Cant find watermark settings on my new site.
Hi, I'm new to this site, I want to remove the watermarks on one of my galleries, but there is no where to be found.

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards

Eltano

Allen

Go to the gallery and click Organizer at the top.

On the Organizer click the wrench at the top.
Select watermarks in the drop.
At the top click remove and "select all".
Click Watermark on right end then wait for a time for them all to be done.

byoshi

So in the watermark edit page if I select large, it should only show on pictures displayed large or higher correct?

I put it on large but my thumbnails in all my galleries still show watermarks. They still show on the gallery list images as well.

Allen

byoshi wrote: »

So in the watermark edit page if I select large, it should only show on pictures displayed large or higher correct?

I put it on large but my thumbnails in all my galleries still show watermarks. They still show on the gallery list images as well.

To get any watermark change to take effect the display size photos have to be
regenerated. Only new uploads will use the new settings. If you "select all" and
re-add the watermark they should regenerate.

denisegoldberg

byoshi wrote: »

So in the watermark edit page if I select large, it should only show on pictures displayed large or higher correct?

I put it on large but my thumbnails in all my galleries still show watermarks. They still show on the gallery list images as well.

Do you need to regenerate the watermarks in your galleries for the change to show? I could be wrong but I believe the setting on the watermark is only used when a watermark needs to be applied (as opposed to automatically applying to your already-watermarked photos).

--- Denise

denisegoldberg

dwterry wrote: »

I still see watermarks on the Gallery Thumbnails on my site. Should they be gone? Is it a patience issue? (does it take time for them to go away?)

Did you re-watermark your photos? I don't believe it would apply to already-watermarked images.

--- Denise

Allen

Caveat, I'm not sure if Smug will now only regenerate the size you select and larger or all of them.

You might have to "remove" from all first then add.

byoshi

Ah ok. Is there a way to remove the watermark from ALL galleries at once, or does it have to be done gallery to gallery? I don't recall if there was something like this.

Allen

In gallery settings the watermark setting only applies to new uploads. To change any watermark
on existing photos you'll have to do one gallery at a time.

denisegoldberg

Allen wrote: »

Caveat, I'm not sure if Smug will now only regenerate the size you select and larger or all of them.

You might have to "remove" from all first then add.

I experimented with one gallery and I didn't need to remove the watermarks first. Adding the watermark (again) was good enough.

--- Denise

denisegoldberg

Allen wrote: »

In gallery settings the watermark setting only applies to new uploads. To change any watermark
on existing photos you'll have to do one gallery at a time.

Ah, you're right - I lost my brain for a minute.

--- Denise

Allen

Yes, adding a watermark will regenerate the display photos to show the new watermark. It will
override the existing WM, no need to remove first.

What I'm not sure of is the "new" watermark set to a minimum size, if it is "added"
to "select all" does it remove the WM on smaller sizes or only change the minimum
size and larger.

byoshi

Good to know, thanks for the guidance Allen and Denise.

Allen

One thing to keep in mind is in Smugmug style galleries if you re-do your watermarks and you
have special cropped all your thumbs you will lose that crop.

We complained about this years ago and they did not exclude thumbs from the process.

mbonocore

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Do you need to regenerate the watermarks in your galleries for the change to show? I could be wrong but I believe the setting on the watermark is only used when a watermark needs to be applied (as opposed to automatically applying to your already-watermarked photos).

--- Denise

Yes, you need to reapply existing watermarks

AperturePlus

Wow - brilliant news SM. Well done and thank you.

mbonocore

AperturePlus wrote: »

Wow - brilliant news SM. Well done and thank you.

Thanks Aperture! Let us know how it works!

AperturePlus

It works perfectly Michael. It took me a bit of fiddling to get the size-thing right, but once I did, it was perfect.

pat.kane

I believe I have found a bug. When a feature image is used, it retains the watermark on the gallery listing page even if the size is smaller than what has been set for watermarking.

For example, see http://www.dmvpix.com/Sports/Basketball/2013-14

The gallery listing shows some thumbnails with watermarks and others without. The layout is Grid with Medium-sized photos. I have watermark set to Large as the smallest size. Each image that retains the watermark is from a gallery where I selected the Feature Image. The ones without a watermark are the galleries where I did not select a Feature Image.

Each of the galleries utilizes the same settings and the watermarks were rebuilt yesterday at the same time.

Allen

Remove the feature photo then re-add it. The featured photo is probably saved, so you have to re-do it.

pat.kane

Already tried that, even selecting a different photo and no change in the result.

Darter02

Thanks. I'll play around with this at some point!

ko04

mbonocore wrote: »

Hi Dgrinners,

Want to protect your images with a watermark, but don't like how they appear on a multiple photos block on your homepage? Well, we have now added the ability to only have your watermark appear on the display sizes you choose. This option will appear in the watermark edit page.

Two Things To Know:

The Tiny size display copy will no longer be watermarked, even when Thumbnails are set as the Smallest Size. This Ti size is mostly used as thumbnails for SmugMug style galleries, so new uploads won’t appear to have watermarks on their thumbnails in SM styles.

Existing Watermarks: If the Apply to Thumbs option was turned on, the Smallest Watermark Size will default to Thumbnails. If that option was off, the Smallest Watermark Size will default to Small.

well that sure does make things a lot easier when designing before you had to have a feature gallery just for un-watermarked images to use them on your site for thumbnails and such. For the sounds of it this takes away that issue.

pat.kane

I'm still getting inconsistent results. Two galleries were uploaded tonight with identical settings and one shows the gallery thumbnail with the watermark and the other doesn't.

http://www.dmvpix.com/Sports/Lacrosse/

taylowa

Would be very nice, if the thumbnail images no matter what you have it set to (mine is Collage Landscape Medium) would remove the watermark. This way you could make it so you could protect your smallest images individually, but have your gallery page not look like "crap" with watermarks all over the place. This was fixed for the slideshows, so it should be fixed for galleries, folder, pages, etc.

bokehlover71

Even though I have chosen minimum X-Large on my watermarks, they appear on thumbnails on my retina display Mac because the retina display uses larger image sizes.

Another problem with retina displays is that they look blurry because they are upscaled. The watermark size is based on low resolution screens. I know I can make a 1600 px transparent watermark with a smaller logo inside to force the watermark to be downscaled, but then I have to make different versions for portrait and landscape pictures, and for different placements. This is unnecessarily cumbersome.

leftquark

While it's good to see SM trying to improve the watermark interface there's still a lot left to be desired. Two of the biggest features are missing: resize and image offset.

I shouldn't have to figure out the size of my watermark before I go to use the watermark. Similar to the opacity (transparency), there should be a slider to reduce the image size. Additionally, if you choose a location of the watermark that's on the edge, there should be a way to offset it by a user customizable # of pixels. For example, if I choose bottom left, I should be able to move it 5 pixels to the right and 5 pixels up so that it has some space inside the image.

Apparently there's no way to do this via CSS because SmugMug actually adds it to the image itself rather than just putting it on top of it in CSS. Only the watermark preview can be altered in CSS.

Guess I'll have to make my watermark image with some extra pixels to the left and below it.

David_S85

OK, better, but still not right. Here's what I see, no matter how I resize my browser (Safari):



Most of my custom watermarks aren't even visible in the right side column. All of those that are designed for application to an outside edge of a photo (I have twelve of those) are not showing at all, yet the name of the watermark is there, thankfully. Not very useful to me if I can't see them at the right. The watermark does display in the sample photo on the left when selected. The old watermark interface used to show my watermark images completely. The new one shows approx. 70% of the image.