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[Photoshop] Placing a watermark logo at 10% offset on different size images

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by SwoLy-D, Apr 7, 2010.

  1. CrazyDave

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    Man, I thought mine looked tedious, even after I streamlined the process. Granted, you were more verbose, but did you try my last one? I didn't need to use align, and only had to move the placed logo once, didn't have to select or deselect. Just wondering if you tried it the aboveway. I was curious about whether you wanted scaling too, but that's a bit trickier.
     
  2. KingCheetah

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    There is a much, much easier way to do that.
     
  3. CrazyDave

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    Well, I thought 2-3steps to make the action was pretty tight, but since you've told us twice how easily you can do it, what are you waiting for in order to share?
     
  4. SwoLy-D

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    ^Let ReyChita troll. Trollers gon'troll...
    I think I just forgot about scaling, because I know that the logo would be stretched or pulled away from its natural proportions.

    The thing about your steps is that I noticed you didn't do a "select all" or didn't actually moved the logo to the right or left.

    In my tests, for example, when I had a logo I had it on the bottom right of the PDF I was placing. When you make that particular layer align right and alight bottom, it removes the pixels from the right and bottom, and the image is flushed on its edges. From this step is where I gathered about moving it up 10 percent and left 10 percent.

    In comparison, if I was to follow your "down 40% and right 40%" movement, I would probably need to have the logo completely on the center of the PLACED image. :eek: I didn't have that. I might try just a centered logo.

    I am still trying to perfect this, because I hope to place the logo in proportion to the image.

    Thanks for your help, DaveElLoco. :cool:
     
  5. CrazyDave

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    Np. just curious. I see what you mean... and yeah, scaling the placed logo according to main image size variations is a different story.
     
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    Necro bump, but kudos to you kind sir for this link! That software hasn't been updated since 2002, but it's perfectly useful even today.

    You'd think Adobe would do a better job at integrating [what should be] simple functions like this one into their programs, but...nope. You see all the steps that Swoly had to take (which I was about to attempt), but then it turns out there's a program already that does exactly what you need!

    Even when searching Google this doesn't show up!

    While on the topic...another thing I wish Adobe supported: custom organization of fonts -- meaning, I can categorize fonts by, for example, serif/sans-serif/decorative, not just alphabetically.
     
  8. TISNF

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    One amendment...the only "problem" with Picture Shark batching is, for whatever reason, it increases the file size tremendously for the output. Strange.
     
  9. Nero

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    That IS kind of a problem.

    Lightroom handles this job automatically, doesn't it?
     
  10. SwoLy-D

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    The resulting file size is probably because there's no compression on the ending JPG. Maybe you want to leave it at the size the software creates so you won't lose detail? What are we talking about, here, a 100%, 10%, or 1% increase in file size? :confused:

    I'm scared to download it.
     
  11. TISNF

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    I actually ran the sample batch again and lowered it from 100% to around 90% output. File sizes were considerably lower, much closer to the original file size.

    It seems like a great tool (hard to call it a program), and still miffed as to why it's not in Photoshop. Maybe someone's create a custom plugin though.

    Never used Lightroom, so not sure about that.
     

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