Watermarking photos

[red_slr]

Does anyone know of good (ideally free) software for watermarking photos?
Needs to look professional though. We are seeing some of our company facebook photos being nicked by other companies...

Thanks!

[Whoozit]

GIMP is free. It's a Photoshop-style programme so can be a little daunting at first, but gives you maximum flexibility to do what you want to the images.

[feef]

I use Gimp for various things, but it also supports batch processing, and you can use that to 'automatically' watermark images in a specified directory

http://registry.gimp.org/node/21834

[S47]

Sadly any photo you post on the net is liable to get nicked, if you don't want people using it, it's simple - DON'T POST IT ON THE NET!

[feef]

Are they being nicked outright, or are they being stupid and hotlinking? I had a niche sports news source plagiarise a couple of my articles and were brazen enough to even hotlink my own images.

In addition to emailing their editor, I changed the hotlinked images to ones of knobs

[red_slr]

Outright. Thanks for the info.

[Jazzy Jefferson]

red_slr said:

Does anyone know of good (ideally free) software for watermarking photos?
Needs to look professional though. We are seeing some of our company facebook photos being nicked by other companies...

Thanks!

IMBatch is free and very easy. It allows you to add watermarks in bulk. I've not found this function in GIMP but it may be there.
Be warned...watermarks still wont stop theft.

[GSalt]

red_slr said:

Does anyone know of good (ideally free) software for watermarking photos?
Needs to look professional though. We are seeing some of our company facebook photos being nicked by other companies...

Thanks!

It's for business, so it's an expense so don't restrict yourself to just the free software.

Have a look at Adobe Lightroom, it's normally pigeon-holed as a raw converter and processing software but it's got features that make it a very good choice for a business managing it's photography:
- Cataloguing and tagging, so you can find the shot you need from your back catalogue.
- Metadata presets, so you can populate the IPTC and copyright fields so that every image you share is traceable back to you.
- Export presets, to prepare images to standard sizes/quality for social media and automatically add watermarks.