How to add a logo to 80+ photos?

[Phunk]

Hey Chaps, I can find plenty of solutions for PC users, but as a Mac user I can't really find anything!

I need to add a small logo to the bottom right of 80+ photographs, I currently have Lightroom and Photoshop CS4 if that helps?

Cheers

Stuart

[sherman]

Just use a permenant marker

HTH

[Simpo Two]

I'd guess a Photoshop 'action', but they are damnably unintuitive.

[beano500]

Simpo Two said:

I'd guess a Photoshop 'action', but they are damnably unintuitive.

"There's and Action for that!"

I would presume:

80 pics in one folder, another empty folder to save result, logo elsewhere: Open one pic, start recording action, copy/paste logo, save in empty folder, stop recording, then play it on all the rest. I don't know if it's easier to do than describe? Just needs a logical approach (intuitive or not)!

[Phunk]

I can get that action to work, great!

Only problem is that the pics are both landscape and portrait, so Ive set it up using landscape and it doesn't work on the portrait ones.

I'm going to be doing this every week, so I wont to make it as simple as possible!

[beano500]

Phunk said:

... landscape and portrait...

There's probably a better way, but I'd be tempted to run it twice (into two folders, marked H and V or L and P) and just delete the ones I didn't want. Gets the job done, even if it is a bit messy?

[CVP]

beano500 said:

Phunk said:

... landscape and portrait...

There's probably a better way, but I'd be tempted to run it twice (into two folders, marked H and V or L and P) and just delete the ones I didn't want. Gets the job done, even if it is a bit messy?

Agreed, that's what I do for my web resizing. I have two actions, on to resize vertical, one to do horizontals and execute on difefrent folders. Messy but it does the job.

[4hero]

beano500 said:

Simpo Two said:

I'd guess a Photoshop 'action', but they are damnably unintuitive.

"There's and Action for that!"

I would presume:

80 pics in one folder, another empty folder to save result, logo elsewhere: Open one pic, start recording action, copy/paste logo, save in empty folder, stop recording, then play it on all the rest. I don't know if it's easier to do than describe? Just needs a logical approach (intuitive or not)!

Edited a little to cater for portrait and landscape shots

80 pics in one folder, another empty folder to save result, logo elsewhere: Open one pic, start recording action, copy/paste logo. In your layers pallette, select logo layer and photo layer (making sure your move arrow is selected, press V to make sure). At the top of ps you'll see these icons:



Click the ones that suit. You can then nudge the logo up and right to suit with your arrow keys.

Save in empty folder, stop recording, then play it on all the rest.

Edited by 4hero on Wednesday 27th January 17:54

[Simpo Two]

4hero said:

In your layers pallette, select logo layer and photo layer (making sure your move arrow is selected, press V to make sure). At the top of ps you'll see these icons...

Click the ones that suit. You can then nudge the logo up and right to suit with your arrow keys.

Intersting - I'd normally use the Move tool, but perhaps that can't be recorded?

[4hero]

Move will record the pixels you move to the left and bottom, hence it won't work with portrait & landscape. Align will always move to wherever you place it, regardless of size and dimensions

[VxDuncan]

As it wasn't specifically pointed out - use the "automate" function (file menu) to run the action on a batch of images rather than manually load them all up.

I think there is a way to do non absolute positioning in PS actions, but will need more investigation...

[thatone1967]

there is always this alternative...

[sevros1981]

batch processing in photoshop

[Colin RedGriff]

In Lightroom there is plug-in called lr2/mogrify

http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmo...


Allows you to export with borders and logos and text.

[tinman0]

Phunk said:

Hey Chaps, I can find plenty of solutions for PC users, but as a Mac user I can't really find anything!

Easy. Imagemagick. It's a command line programme.

Copy all the pictures you want into a new folder (make sure you have a back up).

Then in a terminal window:

cd Desktop/NewFolder (assuming the folder is called NewFolder (don't use spaces).

for a in `ls ` ; do composite -dissolve 50 -gravity SouthEast ../logo.png $i $i ; done

logo.png needs to be the logo, and the only bit I could never do was make the background transparent. but it needs to be transparent iirc. You also need to put the logo file in the folder above the one with the pictures you need converting, otherwise, you'll convert the logo file as well.

The command above will do all 80 at once. What you probably need to do, is just run the command on its own:

composite -dissolve 50 -gravity SouthEast logo.png picture.jpg picture2.jpg

picture2.jpg becomes the test picture. When you like the results, run it on the whole folder with the for loop command.


Edit, if it makes you feel any better, I use this on a Mac all the time, rather than a PC.

Edited by tinman0 on Tuesday 2nd February 03:12

[Famous Graham]

tinman0 said:

Phunk said:

Hey Chaps, I can find plenty of solutions for PC users, but as a Mac user I can't really find anything!

Easy. Imagemagick. It's a command line programme.

Which is utilised by the previous poster's suggestion of Mogrify (although the link is to the Lightroom v1 version - if you're on Lightroom 2, click on the link on the right for LR/Mogrify2 first). I *think* there's a Mac version of the plugin - if there is, it's a damn site more intuitive and easier on the workflow than utilising IM at the command line

Edited by Famous Graham on Tuesday 2nd February 03:34

[tinman0]

Famous Graham said:

tinman0 said:

Phunk said:

Hey Chaps, I can find plenty of solutions for PC users, but as a Mac user I can't really find anything!

Easy. Imagemagick. It's a command line programme.

Which is utilised by the previous poster's suggestion of Mogrify (although the link is to the Lightroom v1 version - if you're on Lightroom 2, click on the link on the right for LR/Mogrify2 first). I *think* there's a Mac version of the plugin - if there is, it's a damn site more intuitive and easier on the workflow than utilising IM at the command line

what's difficult about....?

for a in `ls ` ; do composite -dissolve 50 -gravity SouthEast ../logo.png $i $i ; done

[Simpo Two]

Ah, good old DOS!

[Famous Graham]

Or bash even