JetPhoto Studio is a great little freeware application for Mac and PC for adding a watermark to your images. I spent a great deal of time trying to find a freeware program for my Mac that would add a watermark to a batch of images I wanted to publish on the web. There was plenty on freeware for a PC and plenty of software for a Mac that came with a price, but the program I desired was very elusive. One option that I wasn't too excited about was using Picasa, but you could only add text rather than an image as a watermark. After many failed Google searches, I ended up on download.com and did a search for "watermark" and filtered the results to only show results with free licences. There were four options and none looked too promising. To make a long and boring story short and exciting - I downloaded JetPhoto Studio and it rocks! The following is an illustrated guide to add a watermark to an image with JetPhoto Studio.Step 1: Open JetPhoto Studio and create a new album, which I called "Watermark Demo".
Step 2: Drag and drop one or more images into the new album.
Step3 : Click on the "Actions" tab, and click on "Web Ready".
Step 4: Click on the "Resize" tab and select what size images you want generated. I only wanted a watermark on my demo image at a size of 1600 X 1200 pixels.
Step 5: Click on the "Watermark" tab and drag and drop your watermark mask into the rectangle. My watermark mask is white so you can't really see it too good. Select where you want the watermark positioned on your image.
Step 6: Click "Export Now!" and a folder will be placed on your desktop with your watermarked image(s).
To my delight, I have once again managed to find and use either freeware or open source software to accomplish what I need. I thank all the people (in this the case JetPhoto Studio authors and supporters) who put so much work into making free and quality software. BTW, I used Inkscape, an amazing open source application for creating professional vector graphics (like Adobe Illustrator) for my watermark. I'll probably be doing more illustrated how-to guides on other freeware and open source software for the Mac in the future.
Click here for another example set of pics with a more professional looking watermark
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6 comments:
Free software: so often the best kind!
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This is great! I just got a new MacBook and was looking for a watermark free program.
Thanks!
Cameron
(who publishes a LOT of garden photos)
I tried to follow your step by step soloution, however, the watermark never appeared.
Let's say I wanted to watermark the word Canada on my photo you didn't say how to do that...
Can you help?
Cameron, Glad it worked for you! Thanks for leaving a message.
Anonymous, I'm not sure why it didn't work for you, if you followed the steps exactly, it should have worked. If you want to add a word, you need to first use graphic editor software to create an image with the word and export the image as a .png or whatever (.jpeg and .gif will probably also work). Then you just import that watermark as explained in this article. For graphic editing software, I would recommend InkScape, an open source illustrating program available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. For an example of an image with a word watermark go here: Eurasian Coot - Blässhuhn
Excellent! I have a mac, a recently started blog and a new camera burning a hole in my photographic pocket - only thing holding me back from really getting stuck in was a watermark - not that anyone would ever want to pinchy my pictures but still!
Thanks for the tip :)
Thanks for sharing this information. :)
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