Watermarking in Lightroom

Posted by Eric Leszkowicz on Nov 19, 2008 in Blog, Lightroom | 3 comments

Fellow geeks rejoice.

OK, at least for us photographers, watermarking is a part of everyday life.  The problem is that it is not an easy process.  Opening files and running actions, droplets, shortcuts and who knows what else on images all the while being frustrated and tearing our hair out.

What solutions exist that could make watermarking a touch easier? Lightroom has already simplified my life greatly and now it can do more.

There are two options that I know of:

Option1

Matt Kloskowski just posted a video on his blog that shows how to make lightroom slideshow do what it wasn’t intended to do. You can see that video here on his Lightroom Killer Tips website.

Option 2

Download a donation-ware plugin that Timothy Ames has created.  This is a plugin for Lightroom that allows you to apply the copyright information upon export.

My opinion.  Matt’s version of copyrighting is a bit easier to execute in the sense that all you need it Lightroom and Photoshop, but the Mogrify plugin is nothing short of amazing.  You can do so many tweaks to how it works. What do you do to watermark images?  Post your comments below.

UPDATE: Seeing LR3 beta 2 in action, the watermarking feature is far superiour to this method.  I suggest abandoning this method as soon as LR3 is available.