{"id":255,"date":"2018-05-07T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T08:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=255"},"modified":"2018-05-07T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T08:06:28","slug":"watermarking-another-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Watermarking another way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, finally&#8230;we may have cracked it!\u00a0 I say &#8216;we&#8217; because this wouldn&#8217;t be possible without having a rather handy software engineer as a husband.\u00a0 He has written me a little programme that allows me to drop photos I want watermarking into a folder.\u00a0 I then run the programme and the watermarked images appear in another folder in a matter of seconds.<br \/>\nThis seems to be the workaround needed for the rather flaky free watermark plug-ins that are available in Word Press.\u00a0 My main problems with the Plug Ins I tried were:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>Bulk watermark rarely worked on all images.<\/li>\n<li>Failed to apply to any images I had cropped.<\/li>\n<li>I ended up with multiple watermarks on an image which didn&#8217;t look professional (see below!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-177 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_8020-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping I can now still use a watermark plug-in that stops people being able to right click and copy images, but with a huge watermark on them, that should be a big deterent anyway!<br \/>\nBelow I&#8217;ve shown some examples of my homemade watermarks, applied using my husband&#8217;s programme.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy preference is Example 2.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll try it on a colour image too, just to see how it stands out.\u00a0 It also might need to be a little smaller, to be a bit less obtrusive!\u00a0 I tried the watermark on a colour pic (see pic below).\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t stand out as much, so think I&#8217;ll just need to twiddle with the transparency and colour of the font and then I then it&#8217;ll be spot on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-262 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_8730-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nBut still, almost&#8230;success!\u00a0 Yayyyy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, finally&#8230;we may have cracked it!\u00a0 I say &#8216;we&#8217; because this wouldn&#8217;t be possible without having a rather handy software engineer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}