Watermarking And Resizing Photos

[TinkerTailor]

What do you guys use?
I currently use 1 app to crop my photos square and downsize them for web, and another that batch watermarks with text only 5 at a time with the free version.

I want to be able to point a piece of software at a folder, and batch process them. Basic prompting to choose the cropping area, and the rest of the operations just happen, resize, watermark, crop, rename to new resave to new folder. I would like to be able to use a graphic logo for the watermark. I would like the whole thing to be as close to free as i can get. Any chance it exists??

[Northmount]

I use Photoshop Elements 10. Has batch processing capabilities. I'm sure there are a lot of others that will do the same.

I see that irfanview has watermark capabilities using an overlay. Have used it many times for batch conversions.

Tom

[TinkerTailor]

I use Photoshop Elements 10. Has batch processing capabilities. I'm sure there are a lot of others that will do the same.

I see that irfanview has watermark capabilities using an overlay. Have used it many times for batch conversions.

Tom

This is funny in a couple ways..

First joke, Adobe?/......Not going to do it. They lost this customer. I actually owned photoshop 4, 5 and illustrator 8,9,10,11. I have issues with them. This forum is not the place.

Second joke, I actually already use ifanview for some resizing and I did not find any decent batch or watermarking when i looked........Perhaps because my software version is from 2008 .........upgrade much...lol

Thanks for the reminder to update my software.

[Wraith]

I believe GIMP has a plugin BIMP that is a graphical batching script. I have not used it myself. Never had the need to batch anything.

Brian

[5 Spice]

I currently use Lightroom. I know that you're not an Adobe fan, but Lightroom can batch resize, rename, add a watermark and save to a folder of your choice all with a couple of clicks. It's the only program I use to archive and edit my photos (unless I need some drastic alterations that require photoshop).

[Grittyrustic]

On 11/12/2015 at 0:37 AM, TinkerTailor said:

What do you guys use?
I currently use 1 app to crop my photos square and downsize them for web, and another that batch watermarks with text only 5 at a time with the free version.

I want to be able to point a piece of software at a folder, and batch process them. Basic prompting to choose the cropping area, and the rest of the operations just happen, resize, watermark, crop, rename to new resave to new folder. I would like to be able to use a graphic logo for the watermark. I would like the whole thing to be as close to free as i can get. Any chance it exists??

Best free program I know of is photoscape. You can batch watermark over 100+ images at a time and batch edit all image sizes in a single folder with the click of a button. Try it out, you will be happy you did. And it costs absolutely nothing.

1. After downloading this free program go to "Batch Editor", drag and drop every file you want in there and then in the right side pane under the "home tab", set your dimensions.

2. Then in the same right side pane select the "object tab" and then add your logo. Place your logo in the respective location you want it to be (it will appear on all images in the same location). Right clicking the logo as it is on the images will give you options to reduce the clearness/opacity and size of the logo making perfect for your intended needs.

3. Then in the top right hand corner select convert. After that you can choose to change the title of each individual image in a counting manner if you want. A new folder will be produced with all converted/edited images. 

This is the single best image editing software I have come across.

Oh and the "filter tab" located in the right side pane allows you to add some really cool graphics to all images added to the batch editor.

Have a go at it!

Edited April 29, 2016 by GrittyRusticLeather
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