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Originally Posted by Mutt
Photoshop is slow - just loading 100 uncompressed photos into PS's File Browser takes 5-10 minutes it seems. Then there is no way to watermark a set containing both landscape and portrait orientation pics with one batch action - need to do them seperately.
this Fastone software is 10 times as fast for doing this for me.
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There is a way.
It's something I figured out a while back. Here's what you do. It SOUNDS more complex than it is, but once you set it up once, running watermarks is a breeze.
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*** FIRST STEP ***
You open your watermark (I assume you're using a graphic watermark) open the watermark. Then create a new transparent document that's like 3000 x 3000 pixels. Just make it at least as big as your largest dimension. Then paste in your watermark and position it in the lower right hand corner (again I assume that's where you want it) Then add a new layer, and on this layer put a single 1x1 pixel white dot in the upper left hand corner and in the lower lower right hand corner. Set the opacity of that layer to like 25%
Merge the layers together.
Now you should have a graphic watermark in the lower right corner and two micro dots (working as registration points) in the corners, all on a single layer.
rotate your canvas 180 degrees, so the watermark is upside down in the upper left corner now.
Save this document as a PSD, it will now be used for all your watermarking.
Select>all, then Edit>copy. Now you're set to paste the watermark into the images automatically. Next you have to build the actual action.
*** SECOND STEP ***
Open a photo and set it up to record an action. Start recording. First step, rotate canvas 180 degrees, and then hit CTRL+V (to paste). Now you should have an upside down image and an upside down watermark in the appropriate area. Hit CTRL+E to merge the layers together, rotate 180 degrees and then do a Save As. Save the image, close the image, and then stop recording the action.
Done.
*** USE ***
Then to batch, just open your watermark, select all and copy, then run the batch process. It's easy.
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Like I said it kind of sounds complex, but really all your doing is creating a watermark on a larger canvas, and then building an action that will paste it in the proper place.
As for the browser loading slow.. I dunno. PhotoShop browser is not as fast as Microsoft image viewer so I use that to sort my images then run the batch out of photoshop.