TSR Watermark Image

Description

Photographers and designers who distribute images online — on portfolio websites, client previews, stock photo submissions or social media — use watermarks to identify their work and deter unauthorized use. Applying a watermark to a single image is a fairly simple process in any photo editor, but applying a consistent watermark to a folder of 200 product photos or a session of 500 event photographs by hand is a significant time investment. TSR Watermark Image automates that process: the user sets up the watermark once — position, opacity, size, text or image — and the application works in a batch mode processing a whole folder of images in one operation, writing watermarked copies of the images to the output folder without altering the originals.

TSR Software created TSR Watermark Image as a special batch watermarking tool instead of a general image editor, so that the interface is not cluttered with all the other functions of an image editor, but it is dedicated to the specific task of configuring and applying watermarks on a large scale.

Text Watermarks

Text watermarks add any combination of fixed text, automatic metadata fields, and date or time stamps. Fixed text is used to handle copyright notices, business names, and custom identifiers. Metadata fields draw from the image file’s EXIF data — the photographer’s name stored in the camera, the original capture date, the camera model — inserting values specific to each image automatically. Font, size, color, opacity, rotation angle, and position configure in the watermark editor The position specified by corner anchoring with offset values or by a precise percentage-based position on the image.

Image Watermarks

Logo and image watermarks insert a PNG or BMP graphic file into each processed image. The image watermark scales proportionally to a percentage of the output image size to keep the visual weight of the watermark consistent across images of different resolutions. Opacity controls the transparency of the watermark overlay ranging from fully opaque to a subtle translucent impression. Tiling repeats the watermark over the entire surface of the image as a pattern, rather than a single instance placed in the image.

Batch Processing

The batch processor takes a source folder with images in the format of a jpg, png, bmp, gif or tiff and applies the configured watermark to all the images in the folder. Output is saved to a separate destination folder, leaving the originals unaltered. Subfolders include/exclude from the batch. Processing speed deals with several hundred images per minute on standard hardware, depending on the image resolution and output format. The progress indicator displays the number of processed images and the number of items remaining during the batch run.

Output Format and Quality

The output format allows independent selection from the input — the source folder can contain a set of input images in the form of a PNG image, and the output of the PNG image can be saved in the form of a PNG image with a configured quality level. JPEG quality setting is a compromise between the size of the output file and the visual quality. Resize options are used to scale the output images to a maximum dimension, useful for preparing watermarked web-delivery versions from larger original files in the same batch operation.

Preview

A preview window displays the appearance of the watermark configuration applied to a sample image from the source folder before the batch processes. The preview is updated instantly when the watermark settings are altered and positioning and opacity can be changed to ensure the result is correct before committing to the full batch.

Scheduled Watermarking

TSR Watermark Image Pro has a scheduler that automatically monitors a watch folder and applies the watermark to any new images that are added to the watch folder, saving the watermarked results to the output folder without manual intervention. Photographers who export from Lightroom or another software to a consistent folder use the watch folder to watermark automatically, as part of their export workflow.

Multiple Watermark Layers

The Pro version allows stacking multiple watermarks on the same image — a copyright text at the bottom right and a logo at the top left, for example — each independently configured with its own position, opacity and size.