Easy Watermark Creator 2.0 - is an easy-to-use tool for
addition of visible watermarks to your pictures and photos.
You can find information about program features and areas of its application
here.
After installation of this program select menu item Watermark / Load or click the
toolbar button .
You can select any prepared watermark list from W-file in file open dialog.
- At first you can set working parameters. To do it select menu item File / Preferences.
Tab Parameters allows you to set JPEG compression quality and to write standard or
frequently used phrases which you can add to your image as watermarks (each phrase must be
located in a separate line). You can preserve EXIF data of source JPEG and TIFF pictures with added
watermarks to JPEG and TIFF-files (checked flag Preserve EXIF data).
Tab Open allows you to set parameters of Advanced Open Picture Dialog and to change size
of source picture by its loading (checked flag Invoke size dialog).
- Load source image with which you will work. To do it select menu item File / Open
or click the toolbar button .
You can load wanted images from BMP, JPEG (JPG), PSD, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF(including multipage TIFF) and GIF-files.
Notes:
if you choose animated GIF-file then only the first frame will be used;
if you load multipage TIFF-file then toolbar buttons for page selection will be appeared. Numbers between
these buttons show the number of the current page and total number of pages in TIFF- file;
format TIFF is complicated and has a lot of modifications. So some TIFF-files cannot be used in the program.
In this case try to convert them to some other graphical type (for example, JPEG).
- If it is necessary, edit size of the source image (menu item Image / Size), rotate or flip it (menu items Image / Rotate or
Image / Flip), crop its rectangular patch (menu item Image / Crop).
- All watermarks from prepared lists will be overlaied on your image. Select
wanted watermark list (toolbar button ).
If necessary you can edit attributes of used watermarks
(toolbar button ), delete unnecessary watermarks
(toolbar button )
and add new watermarks (toolbar button ),
or fully clear watermark list (toolbar button ).
Also you can create your own watermark lists.
Notes:
it is useful to create separate watermark lists (W-files) for images with frequently used sizes;
if multipage TIFF-file is used as a source picture then the same watermark list will be added to every page of this file.
Style: Text.
You can input text manually (field Text in dialog Watermark attributes
for Style: Text) or select standard or frequently used phrases. Text watermark can
also be file name, file number, current date and time or date and time from EXIF data (button
in this dialog). To define set of necessary
phrases use tab Parameters invoked by menu item File / Preferences.
Style: Picture.
You can select picture from BMP, JPEG (JPG), GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, ICO, TIFF, TGA -files by pressing the button
Browse in dialog Watermark attributes for Style: Picture.
If you choose animated GIF-file then only first frame will be used as a watermark. Also you can add images from image collections.
Style: Date.
You can set current values of date and (or) time at the moment of addition of watermarks to the
image or use date and (or) time extracted from EXIF if your source JPEG and TIFF pictures have
EXIF data.
Load the wanted watermark list (toolbar button ).
Watermarks checked by flags are active and you can see them on your image.
There are several ways of a choice of necessary watermark (which is highlighted by red frame
on the image).
How to select wanted watermark:
- click by the left mouse button on watermark area on image;
- select watermark name in the list, placed in the left part of the main window;
- if you want to select one of overlapped watermarks put mouse pointer to the necessary place
on image and search necessary watermark with the help of hot keys CTRL+TAB.
Note: you can do any operations only with selected watermark.
Dialog Watermark attributes is intented for editing of parameters of selected watermark.
There are several ways of its appearance:
- press the toolbar button ;
- click menu item Watermark / Edit;
- click popup menu item Edit;
- double click watermark name in the list of watermarks;
- double click watermark on the image;
- click watermark on the image with pressed key Ctrl
Dialogs for editing of watermark attributes :
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You can set:
- watermark name (field Name);
- transparency of watermark from 0 to 100 % (slider Transparency);
- watermark position on your image (group of nine buttons Position);
- offset of watermark relative to chosen position (spinedits Offset X and Offset Y);
- tiled watermark (flag Tile);
- transparent background (flag Transparent). Transparent color is the color of bottom
left pixel (except GIF-image that has its own rules for transparency);
- watermark rotation (for text and date - button Angle, for picture - buttons
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). You can rotate text
with TrueType font only;
- for text and date styles: font parameters (button Font), text color (square Color), background color
(square Background).
- for date style: date and time from EXIF as watermarks if your source JPEG and TIFF pictures
have EXIF data.
You can:
- add new watermark to your image with the help of menu item Watermark / Add or the
toolbar button ;
- delete selected watermark with the help of menu item Watermark / Delete or the
toolbar button ;
- duplicate selected watermark with the help of menu item Watermark / Duplicate or the
toolbar button ;
- move selected watermark in the list of watermarks using toolbar buttons
,
;
- move selected watermark on the image by mouse. Mouse cursor shows place of its initial
positioning and offset direction. If flag Tile in dialog Watermark attributes
is checked that this watermark you cannot move.
If flag Tile is checked (dialog Watermark attributes), the
watermark will repeat itself and eventually cover the original image. You can set transparency
of tiled watermark with the help of slider Transparency.
- If you want to make text-rendered image, then you need to choose style Text, enter necessary
text into field Text, set wanted color for your text and set flag Transparent.
- If you want to make text- and color-rendered image at once, then you need to do
similar steps but uncheck flag Transparent and set background color around of the text.
- If you want to make color-rendered image, then you need to choose style Text, enter
any text into field Text, set identical colors for the text and background around it.
- If you want to overlay texture on your image, then you need to choose style Picture,
select picture by pressing the button Browse. You can check flag Transparent,
color of bottom left pixel will be a transparent color (except GIF-image that has its own rules for transparency).
You can:
- save created watermark list as W-file. For this purpose choose menu item
Watermark / Save or press the toolbar button .
- save created image with added watermarks as BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF(including multipage TIFF) or PNG-file with the help of menu item
File / Save as or the toolbar button .
You can set JPEG compression quality on tab Parameters (menu item File / Preferences). Note: if your source JPEG or TIFF picture has EXIF data then you can save image with EXIF data
and added watermarks to JPG and TIFF-files (checked flag Preserve EXIF data on tab Parameters);
- copy created image with watermarks to clipboard in BMP-format with the help of menu item
File / Copy to clipboard or the toolbar button ;
- add necessary watermark list to the group of images with the help of dialog Batch Wizard,
which appears after choice menu item File / Batch Wizard or after pressing the toolbar
button .
Easy Watermark Creator supports multi-language interface. Program interface may be seen in one of
human languages. It includes menus, screen messages, all texts used in interface. To change
language use menu item Help / Language.
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You can select any prepared watermark list from W-file in file open dialog.
- At first you can set working parameters. To do it select menu item File / Preferences.
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You can load wanted images from BMP, JPEG (JPG), PSD, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF(including multipage TIFF) and GIF-files. 
), delete unnecessary watermarks
(toolbar button 
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and add new watermarks (toolbar button 
),
or fully clear watermark list (toolbar button 
).
Also you can create your own watermark lists.
Style: Text.
in this dialog). To define set of necessary
phrases use tab Parameters invoked by menu item File / Preferences.
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). You can rotate text
with TrueType font only;
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;
- If you want to make text-rendered image, then you need to choose style Text, enter necessary
text into field Text, set wanted color for your text and set flag Transparent.
- If you want to make color-rendered image, then you need to choose style Text, enter
any text into field Text, set identical colors for the text and background around it.
- If you want to overlay texture on your image, then you need to choose style Picture,
select picture by pressing the button Browse. You can check flag Transparent,
color of bottom left pixel will be a transparent color (except GIF-image that has its own rules for transparency).
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You can set JPEG compression quality on tab Parameters (menu item File / Preferences).
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