I think we should all just use Mike's example. Straight to the point.
Got my old PS action tweaked to generate a nice watermark & with a minor hiccup it works great. The hiccup? For whatever reason the preview & list of current watermarks shows me nothing, but after applying it I'm seeing what I expect. In the end, my images are marked so I'm not going to worry much about it--likely user error somewhere.
I think we should all just use Mike's example. Straight to the point.
Got my old PS action tweaked to generate a nice watermark & with a minor hiccup it works great. The hiccup? For whatever reason the preview & list of current watermarks shows me nothing, but after applying it I'm seeing what I expect. In the end, my images are marked so I'm not going to worry much about it--likely user error somewhere.
An action! That would have been so simple and obvious!
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My portfolio gallery is not watermarked at this time but I have set a water mark for my "Art for your WAlls" gallery....but I find that when I move a copy from portfolio to Art..... gallery they are not watermarked.
Do I have to do a completely new upload for the watermaking to happen?
My portfolio gallery is not watermarked at this time but I have set a water mark for my "Art for your WAlls" gallery....but I find that when I move a copy from portfolio to Art..... gallery they are not watermarked.
Do I have to do a completely new upload for the watermaking to happen?
Not a new upload, but for photos you've moved, that aren't watermarked, you can use the watermark tool under photo tools after you've moved it. OK?
Not a new upload, but for photos you've moved, that aren't watermarked, you can use the watermark tool under photo tools after you've moved it. OK?
Thanks for the tip - worked for my galleries where the watermark setting just wouldn't do anything. So far turning on the watermark gallery wide worked only on new galleries for me. Any idea why?
Thanks,
Sebastian
EDIT: PS: The manual watermarking function via photo tools also watermarks pictures of just 800x600! Haven't tried it for smaller pictures yet, but I would like how this turns out.
EDIT2: You can even upsample a 800x600 picture to any picture size you like with still having the watermark on.
Okay here's something with watermarking/custom size I don't understand:
With originals turned off the 1000px wide picture and even the 1600px one has a watermark - of course these are upsampled from the 800px large image. (gallery link).
BUT when I turn on originals the 1600px wide picture doesn't have a watermark anymore, while the 1000px one still has it. (gallery link).
Why isn't my bigger photo protected anymore? That confused me a lot as I wanted to use a bigger photo for ebay, but then it hadn't my name on it anymore. I ended up uploading a manually watermarked photo.
SM won't upload PNG watermark...
..Followed Andy's tut for watermark.(Thank you!)..saved for web and as png. file...but smugmug won't allow png. upload..when uploaded as JPG the background is not transparent....was a step missing in the tut or more likely......what did I miss???
..Followed Andy's tut for watermark.(Thank you!)..saved for web and as png. file...but smugmug won't allow png. upload..when uploaded as JPG the background is not transparent....was a step missing in the tut or more likely......what did I miss???
if you use the drag and drop method of upload SM will take it.....I could not get send to SM to do it though...
Than view as original and you should see the transparent version...
if you use the drag and drop method of upload SM will take it.....I could not get send to SM to do it though...
Than view as original and you should see the transparent version...
..Followed Andy's tut for watermark.(Thank you!)..saved for web and as png. file...but smugmug won't allow png. upload..when uploaded as JPG the background is not transparent....was a step missing in the tut or more likely......what did I miss???
Use the universal Drag and Drop, with a png-24 file. If you are still haveing trouble, Trish, email it to the help desk we'll take a look at it.
What if you do NOT want digital downloads
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you turn OFF the ability for people to purchase digital downloads?
Even though I put zero (or no price) in the price column for the digital downloads I still see that users can purchase the 1MP personal download. For some galleries I don't want ANY downloads.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you turn OFF the ability for people to purchase digital downloads?
Even though I put zero (or no price) in the price column for the digital downloads I still see that users can purchase the 1MP personal download. For some galleries I don't want ANY downloads.
Are you logged on ?
Try logging out and purchasing a photo.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you turn OFF the ability for people to purchase digital downloads?
Even though I put zero (or no price) in the price column for the digital downloads I still see that users can purchase the 1MP personal download. For some galleries I don't want ANY downloads.
So here we go. I've found the time to try playing with some watermarking.
I have a logo that is basically a graphic version of text typed in a particular font. The original format is a bmp. I do not have the font. I can cut and paste this into any other graphic format using irfanview. I do not have any other graphics program other than windows paint.
What I want to do is make this embossed into the photos like VH1 used to do on TV back in the day. (If anyone actually remembers that. ) If that's too complicated, I'd just want a translucent version of the logo that I can place in the corner of every photo.
Any assistance appreciated. I'm not sure how the whole clear thing can be done with the limited tools I have.
So here we go. I've found the time to try playing with some watermarking.
I have a logo that is basically a graphic version of text typed in a particular font. The original format is a bmp. I do not have the font. I can cut and paste this into any other graphic format using irfanview. I do not have any other graphics program other than windows paint.
What I want to do is make this embossed into the photos like VH1 used to do on TV back in the day. (If anyone actually remembers that. ) If that's too complicated, I'd just want a translucent version of the logo that I can place in the corner of every photo.
Any assistance appreciated. I'm not sure how the whole clear thing can be done with the limited tools I have.
Great question for the Finishing School. Post it there, the experts can let you know. I don't know about Irfanview, I'm sorry...
Great question for the Finishing School. Post it there, the experts can let you know. I don't know about Irfanview, I'm sorry...
Thank you for the quick reply Andy. I'll post it there and see what happens. I can't wait to get started on having everything watermarked. I'm sure I'll gain quite a bit of referral traffic from all the sites where my photos are linked.
Watermark not applied to all photos in gallery This gallery had a watermark applied to all photos using the watermark option in Photo Tools. Two pictures in the gallery were not updated. If you select one of the individual pictures and look at Photo Tools, the Watermark option is not there.
I selected a different picture, selected the watermark tool and tried to apply it again to the two affected pictures, but it still doesn't show. Any idea what's happening here? I've got at least one other gallery with the same problem.
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Okay - How'd ya do it? I can do the clear embossed look in CS2 but not sure how to create this look for my SM watermark.
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Here you go, a tutorial all about creating the clear beveled watermark look in photoshop and using that as your watermark on your smugmug site. Enjoy.
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
3 attemps & 2 hours later i still cant get it...god i hate computers. Anyone else got this going from mikes plan ?
Worked like a charm for me
Gus - make sure you do some additional work, such as emboss, to your text after you remove the fill.
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Got my old PS action tweaked to generate a nice watermark & with a minor hiccup it works great. The hiccup? For whatever reason the preview & list of current watermarks shows me nothing, but after applying it I'm seeing what I expect. In the end, my images are marked so I'm not going to worry much about it--likely user error somewhere.
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Now I have to find the time to set up all the new features.
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My portfolio gallery is not watermarked at this time but I have set a water mark for my "Art for your WAlls" gallery....but I find that when I move a copy from portfolio to Art..... gallery they are not watermarked.
Do I have to do a completely new upload for the watermaking to happen?
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Thanks,
Sebastian
EDIT: PS: The manual watermarking function via photo tools also watermarks pictures of just 800x600! Haven't tried it for smaller pictures yet, but I would like how this turns out.
EDIT2: You can even upsample a 800x600 picture to any picture size you like with still having the watermark on.
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With originals turned off the 1000px wide picture and even the 1600px one has a watermark - of course these are upsampled from the 800px large image. (gallery link).
BUT when I turn on originals the 1600px wide picture doesn't have a watermark anymore, while the 1000px one still has it. (gallery link).
Why isn't my bigger photo protected anymore? That confused me a lot as I wanted to use a bigger photo for ebay, but then it hadn't my name on it anymore. I ended up uploading a manually watermarked photo.
Thanks,
Sebastian
SmugMug Support Hero
..Followed Andy's tut for watermark.(Thank you!)..saved for web and as png. file...but smugmug won't allow png. upload..when uploaded as JPG the background is not transparent....was a step missing in the tut or more likely......what did I miss???
Than view as original and you should see the transparent version...
The drag and drop doesn't work for png either
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Thank you!
Hi Andy!
Thanks. Maybe add that little tidbit of info on the watermarking tutorial?
Good work at SmugMug!
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you turn OFF the ability for people to purchase digital downloads?
Even though I put zero (or no price) in the price column for the digital downloads I still see that users can purchase the 1MP personal download. For some galleries I don't want ANY downloads.
Try logging out and purchasing a photo.
Dna
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Sorry, thought I'd tried that already!
I have a logo that is basically a graphic version of text typed in a particular font. The original format is a bmp. I do not have the font. I can cut and paste this into any other graphic format using irfanview. I do not have any other graphics program other than windows paint.
What I want to do is make this embossed into the photos like VH1 used to do on TV back in the day. (If anyone actually remembers that.
Any assistance appreciated. I'm not sure how the whole clear thing can be done with the limited tools I have.
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I got your action right here.
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
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This gallery had a watermark applied to all photos using the watermark option in Photo Tools. Two pictures in the gallery were not updated. If you select one of the individual pictures and look at Photo Tools, the Watermark option is not there.
I selected a different picture, selected the watermark tool and tried to apply it again to the two affected pictures, but it still doesn't show. Any idea what's happening here? I've got at least one other gallery with the same problem.
Thanks
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