DimmY Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Is it possible to add watermarks over the REAL pictures in presentation, not over the desktop? It seems, the current watermark behaviour is meaningless (if pictures are not stretched to all screen), because presentations is used on different monitors with different resolutions, so the placement of watermark will be also different. I need to mark/protect the pictures themselves, not the desktop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ContaxMan Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Presumably you do some preparation work in Photoshop or similar? Why not make an action that does the resizing and, at the same time, adds a watermark to each image.You'll find a nice technique for watermarks here:http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewt...e.cfm?recid=339The subject of people copying pictures from a presentation has been discussed previously on this forum.IMHO it's not worth bothering about - if people are happy with a low-resolution image of around 1024x768 pixels, they can have it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimmY Posted June 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Of course, I can make many things in Photoshop! And, of course, I have some third party utilities for watermarking. But I want to use features of PTE! Also, sometimes it's more convenient to not modify source pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 You don't need to watermark the source image (if you mean the original image that is) In photoshop, it is good practice to create a new folder into which you transfer all images that you intend using in your slide show. These images will have all been manipulated, resized etc. At this point you can add a watermark.Therefore your original image is never touched.Ron West Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ContaxMan Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Yes Ron my point entirely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimmY Posted June 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Yes Ron my point entirely!And it seems you both don't understand me at all. I said that watermarking feature in PTE just doesn't work as it should. So this feature is useless. I didn't ask how to create presentations and how to mark/prepare pictures for them. I know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ContaxMan Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 OK I give in - I don't know what facility of PTE you mean. Anyway, I was only trying to help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 I am in sympathy with Contaxman on this one. It seems that our attempts to help have fallen on stony ground. Perhaps if the original post was a little more clear, then we could have been of more use.You win some, you lose some! Ron West Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimmY Posted June 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 if the original post was a little more clear, then we could have been of more use. Ok, Ron. I try to use another words to explain.Could you tell me the purpose of watermarking feature in PTE? What the sense in it? It couldn't be used to watermark pictures because watermarks are linked to desktop, not to the actual picture. So, for what watermarking is? Just to decorate desktop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 DimmYdo you mean the copyright feature when you talk about watermark project options/advanced/show copyright logo i just made a quick show and used a pict of myself as the logo -- put it in centre of screen and saved as /create as the exe has my face on every picturep2e does not change your original picture -- it is not supposed tothe purpose of the copyright logo is to stop copying -=- when i do a screen shot - my wrinkled face is still there on the picture IF YOU WANT to mark your originals to be used to make a show maybe this program will do it --- you could save a set of originals and watermark the ones for the showhttp://www.photowatermark.com/i have no experience with it as i have no need to protect my picts as my selling days are over -- never worried about it then either - i just would not deal with the customer again - when i would get upset was when my negs were lost/damaged at the processor ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimmY Posted June 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 KenYes, that it! And this feature is useful only if the logo shown in the center of the screen. All other positions is useless. And I often need to put a logo at the top or bottom of a picture. Is it possible? Alas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 And I often need to put a logo at the top or bottom of a picture. Is it possible? Alas but they are the positions that are the most easily cropped out from a screenshothttp://www.photowatermark.com/pict shows a signature at bottom right -- very vulnerable to a crook:)the effects they show are pretty slick -- especially the blonde using their examples you may be able to make a jpg in your graphics program and place it in the showken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrobin Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Dimmy,You're right - if the viewer's monitor is not set at the resolution for which the show was created, the only suitable position for the "copyright" label in PTE is dead-centre. Maybe Igor could change this in the next version so that it is always scaled in size and position to the screen, or else acts like an object so one can group it with other objects, and maintain some control on how it will look for different monitor resolutions.Another way to add a logo at a position other than dead-centre, and have it remain there under most screen resolutions, is to add a transparent GIF of your logo as a "picture object", add tiny transparent "text objects" to opposite corners of the image, and then "group" all objects together in "object editor", including the logo. They should all remain fixed relative to the image under most screen resolutions. Once you have a group set up for one image, you simply need to highlight and copy it, and paste it to each of the other images. This is not a perfect solution but a simple work-around until Igor modifies PTE so that objects are scaled with the images. You have to experiment a bit to determine what works best for the particular image sizes you want to use.Another way to ensure all objects remain fixed relative to the image is to use "windowed mode" in "Project Options / Screen". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markoc398 Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 I just created a square image file the resolution of the images I use in the show. Example: 1024x1024. I then placed my Name and © across the image multiple times. Then saved it as a gif. Now when I put it into a pte show the copyright infor goes across the image. I lower the opacity in pte to be just visible on the image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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