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

Greetings.

I am summoning up the power of the Photoshop pros up in this here ClutchFans hood to see if I can get an answer to my issue.

I am an intermediate Photoshop user... and I know most commands like recording actions and automating batch processes, but some other things are unknown to me.

I have many photos to which I would like to add a logo on the bottom right corner of the image in a 70% opacity.

Is there a way that I can place the logo at 10% from the right and 10% from the bottom edge of the photo, no matter what dimension the photo is?

For example, the Rockets Logo is used as the WaterMark example... and it's placed on an image of the same Rockets logo... on the first image, it's the same dimensions, so it's 10% off the right and 10% off the bottom. I used two guides, each at 90% horizontal and vertical, to align the 10% offset.

Like this:

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NOT like this:

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The second and third images aren't of the same dimensions as the first, so when I use the "place" command, the image I am placing (the logo for watermark) is dead center.

My goal is to save all commands into an action that I can just use in a batch for putting the watermark into maybe hundreds of images with a logo.

 

Thanks for the irFanView plug-in reference. ^ Do you have that and have experience with it, or did you just find it? Good find, by the way... I believe CS3 already does batch stuff like that.

It seems that plug-in does PIXEL placement, not percentage... so what will happen with that is that if the image is 800 x 600, it will place the watermark logo at whatever pixel location you decide (-10), and it won't be the same proportionate location on a 1200 x 900 image. Will it?

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EDIT: The tutorial on the second link you posted does a "text layer", not a logo or place of a PDF or another image into the current image. I'd like to see an image be placed inside another one, kinda like so: http://www.showandtell-graphics.com/batch-signature.html, but always at the 90% horizontal and vertical location.

 

I know it's "easy" on one image, but I meant AUTOMATED, and with a bunch of photos, and always 10% off...

OK, so how did YOU do it, mister "easy"?

 

In this particular step, I have a log in a transparent layer inside a PDF (or in another image) in order to place it inside the current image, and then select "move it far right" or "align right", Photohshop removes the empty space on the right of the logo and places it FLUSHED to the right; I don't want to do that. I am looking instead to leave some space, sort of like the red R Rockets Logo on the other logo, and this is where the percentage (at 90%) comes in. I still can't quite get it to do that for a bunch of images of different dimensions.

You can always save an action to save as JPG as copy or save to any other format and do this in the batch. In the batch action, you can also change the name, extension, etc.

Thanks for your help. I'm still looking. Apparently it's the percentage that's throwing me off here.

 

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Thanks, CrazyDave. I will try those.

Uhhh... I asked about PhotoShop. I don't have LightRoom, yo. Post the steps to do such task in LightRoom, then, just in case I get my hands on it. The problem is clicking ONE button, and have it do the entire procedure for MANY images and place the logo on relatively the same place on images that have different dimensions. Yes, resizing the logo is needed.

 

I got it. There's one last item that I might not have figured out (resizing the logo to fit proportionately within the image... like if the image is really tall, the logo will get taller, too), but now I can do this in a batch and successfully have a logo 10% off the right and 10% off the bottom. I can run this on images with different dimensions and it's placed at 10% off exactly.

(These instructions are assuming you already have a file named "logo.pdf" or one you named yourself, you've set your rules to "Percent" as CrazyDave mentioned, and your initial image is opened in Photoshop). You can record the actions in your own Actions Folder to take with you to another installation of Photoshop. It works in CS4. Here's how I did it:

1. Go to "View->New Guide..." Create a 90% horizontal guide.
2. Go to "View->New Guide..." create a 90% Vertical guide
3. Go to "File->Place..." and find the file "logo.pdf". When you choose it, it will be placed centered on the current image as a new layer.
4. Click the Checkmark (or press Return or Enter) to commit changes for the layer containing the logo. It makes the current logo layer active.
5. Choose "Select->All" (or CTRL+A). This will select the current layer and enable aligning for the next step.
6. Choose "Layer->Align Layers To Selection->Right Edges" (Be careful... in this step and the next, Photoshop takes all the empty pixels off the right and the bottom the logo and places the logo on the rightmost and bottom edge.)
7. Choose "Layer->Align Layers To Selection->Bottom Edges"
8. Choose "Select->Deselect" (or Ctrl+D) to deselect the layers
9. Now drag the current layer (logo) 10% above and 10% to the left of its position.
10. Here you can get fancy with the logo and choose a different opacity (I pressed "6" and it went to "60%" for a see-through effect) or maybe choose a different blending mode.
11. Now choose "Layer->Merge Visible" (or Shift+Ctrl+E) to merge all layers.
12. Finally, choose "File->Save As..." to save it as a different name. This is important so that you can save each file in a batch later as something else. You can always change the destination folder in the "Automate->Batch..." functions.

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