Software to watermark images?

[SUNNY ARSLAN]

I am going to start a wallpapers site and I want to watermark my wallpapers with my site name at the right bottom. I want you people to recommend me some good software so that I can easily watermark my images in batch mode without losing the quality of the wallpapers.

[namestrands]

Simply Overlay your Images with a transparent PNG image with your watermark on it.

Something like this will do it simply. First Create your WaterMark image. Create a file called makeimage.php and use the image tag

 <img src="makeimg.php?photo=original_photo.jpg"> 
  

 
<?php
 
 
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
//(because the script outputs picture)
 
 
$transparency = 40; //watermark's transparency (0-100)
 
 
//source photo
$source_photo = stripslashes($_GET['photo']);
$photo = imagecreatefromjpeg($source_photo);
 
//watermark
$watermark = imagecreatefrompng('watermark.png');
$watermark_width = imagesx($watermark);
$watermark_height = imagesy($watermark);
 
//location of the watermark on the source image
$size = getimagesize($source_photo);
$dest_x = ($size[0] - $watermark_width) / 2;
$dest_y = ($size[1] - $watermark_height) / 2;
 
//make the image (merge source image with watermark)
imagecopymerge($photo, $watermark, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $watermark_width, $watermark_height, $transparency);
 
//output the image
imagejpeg($photo);
 
//free memory
imagedestroy($photo);
imagedestroy($watermark);
 
?>  

[SUNNY ARSLAN]

I have a lot of images & I want batch watermark

Thanks.

[namestrands]

you can manipulate the script above to process an entire directory and output the watermarked files to a new folder.

[SUNNY ARSLAN]

Really thanks buddy. I will try this.

Thanks.

[lazydog]

You can also use the command line tools from the excellent Imagemagick library. These links below should get you started

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/composite.php
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/gr.../#watermarking

All the best

[cooljeba]

as in topic you have mentioned software.. I recommend photoshop.. if you want to do it manually..

Try this watermark tutorial

Hope that helps...

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

[SUNNY ARSLAN]

Thanks for the help CoolJeba.

The thing I am looking is to watermark lot of images and want to do in Batch Mode.