Secret watermark/info for photos

[Bruce]

Does anyone know of a program that works with Photoshop or a standalone program that will insert a watermark (not so much) or identifying info into a photo? This way the photo can be claimed as ones own picture.

[longedge]

Are you thinking about more than writing to either the file properties, EXIF or IPTC details?

I've played around with 'tagging' a few shots with IPTC information but couldn't see the point for me as I don't really have any worries about the odd one or two shots of mine that people might get hold of.

I use IRFANVIEW (http://www.irfanview.com/) as my default viewer and you can edit the IPTC stuff with that. I haven't tried it but I have seen POWEREXIF (http://www.opanda.com/en/pe/index.html) mentioned as a useful tool.

[Dermot]

Here is a step by step for PS.
http://photoshop911.typepad.com/help/2004/04/watermarking_ph.html

Hereare a few programs that can do it in batches.
http://www.batchphoto.com/
http://www.ivertech.com/batchWatermarker/Default.aspx
http://www.watermarker.com/

[Ulrich]

Maybe Bruce was thinking about "invisible" watermarking to track his images in case they are distributed? Like this (https://www.digimarc.com/comm/images.asp)?

Ulrich

[Bruce]

Thx guys! :yes

[Bruce]

This (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/books/mos2/zebras.html) is nuts! Take a look.

[Ulrich]

Bruce, you can get a free software for your tests here (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/winwatermark-26/), but you must visit the addess today (6/26/2008).

Giveaway of the Day: WinWatermark 2.6

WinWatermark is a professional all in one image editing software. It helps you add text and image watermark to any pictures to protect them from unauthorized distribution. WinWatermark is not only watermarking tool, but rather useful and simple photos processor. You can personalize your photos using attractive frames, crop image size to meet you need, resize images with high quality, rotate and rename your pictures, and convert your images to other image formats.

Features:

High speed and high image quality (including powerful Image Processing Engine, which based on MMX- SSE & 3DNow! Technology)
Support almost popular image file formats (including Image Decode/Encode Engine, which can read and write many image formats)
Easy to use software (create your artwork in visual mode, what you see is what you get)
Batch convert mode.


Might be worth a look.

Ulrich

[RobertB]

it is just easier to create an action in photoshop to do all this with one click.

[longedge]

Bruce, you can get a free software for your tests here (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/winwatermark-26/), but you must visit the addess today (6/26/2008).

Giveaway of the Day: WinWatermark 2.6

Ulrich

That's a nice find :yes. Very slick application that does what it says on the box in a very easy and intuitive way. Thanks for the link.

[Bruce]

Thanks everyone for your help!

[Imagine Programming]

It's also possible through PHP... but to much of a trouble i guess:P