When you are happy with the watermark design, you can save all the settings as a custom Watermark Preset. I suggest starting with the settings I use in my template and, later, you can customize it to your liking. I have never felt the need for a graphic option.Īs you can see, the Watermark Editor gives us plenty of settings to customize the watermarks, which can be overwhelming in the beginning. But, you can always select the Graphic version and use a PNG image with a transparent background as a watermark. In my case, I always use the Text option. The first option in the Watermark Editor is what type of watermark you want- Text or Graphic. You will be presented with the Watermark Editor. You can hit the Export button and your photo will be exported with a watermark.When you select the Watermark checkbox, the default value is selected- Simple Copyright Watermark.In the second to last export tab, you will find the Watermarking options.You will be presented with the Export dialog box. When you are ready to export a photo or a group of photos from Lightroom, right (option) click on the selected photo(s), and choose Export from the menu.
The only way to add watermarks in Lightroom is during the export process: There is no way to add watermarks in Lightroom in the Library or Develop modules. Since Lightroom uses non-destructive RAW editing, it is not possible to add a watermark to existing RAW files. Today, I want to show you how you can add watermarks to your photos and how I approach watermarks in my photography. If someone steals my photos, which does not happen often, I treat it as a cost of doing business and try not to worry about it too much. If someone wants to buy my photo or simply learn more about me as a photographer, the watermark provides that opportunity.
I add watermarks mostly for discovery purchases. The metadata can be stripped, the watermark can be cropped or masked. I strongly believe that if a person wants to steal my photo, there is nothing I can do. Once again and similar to how I use copyright metadata, I do not use watermarks solely for image protection. In my photography, I try to maintain a balance between protecting the image and the aesthetics. When I come across such a photograph, all I can see is the ugly watermark and I cannot enjoy the actual photo. My biggest complaint is that the majority of watermarks on the web ruin the artistic aspect of the photograph. I believe that 99% of photographers misuse watermarks. In general, I am not a big fan of watermarks. The second solution for protecting our photos is watermarking. What this means is that using metadata copyright presets is not enough when posting our images to social media. Related: Lightroom Import Presets: Optimizing the Workflow This is absolutely unfair but, it is what it is, and we must deal with it.
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The bad news is that Google Plus is dead while the biggest offender flourishes. Google Plus was the friendliest for photographers because it compressed images using a very smart algorithm that preserved all the metadata included in each photo. I despise Facebook for that but consider it a necessary evil since I have to use it to promote my business. On top of that, it recompresses the image with extremely aggressive settings. When you upload an image to Facebook or post it to Instagram, it strips all the metadata from your photo. The downside of using metadata copyright information is that many online platforms do not respect it.įacebook is the worst offender with regard to user images. I like the metadata approach for image protection because it is not intrusive, nor does it affect the aesthetics of our photographs, and, depending on your needs, you can include plenty of information. In the last article, I addressed the issue of using Copyright Presets to embed copyright information into every photograph we take.
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