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Watermark

Download Watermark 1.0

Have you ever had one of your photos used without your permission? That’s why you should always include your name and a copyright notice somewhere on every photo. Since Aperture doesn’t provide a way to do that easily, I wrote Watermark.

Watermark is an editing plugin that works with Aperture 2.1 or later. To install it, first quit Aperture if it’s already running. Go to the Library folder in your home directory, find the Application Support folder, and look for the Aperture folder. If the Aperture folder doesn’t contain a subfolder called Plug-Ins, create that folder. Finally, drag the Watermark.ApertureEdit icon to the Plug-Ins folder.

The next time you open Aperture, a new item called Watermark will appear in the Edit With… submenu of the Images menu.

To use Watermark, select a photo and choose Watermark from the menu. It will create a duplicate copy of your photo and then open the Watermark window.

Enter your copyright or other message in the text box. Click on the Font button to bring up a standard Font panel, which will let you change the font size, style, and color. You can adjust the transparency of your text using the slider. Finally, click anywhere in the image to place the text. When you click the Done button, your changes will be saved to the new copy of your photo. If you want to cancel the changes, close the window by using the close box. If Watermark duplicated the photo, it will delete the copy when you cancel. The next time you open Watermark, it will remember your text, style, transparency, and where to place the text.

About Watermark

Watermark was written by Mike Cohen. Although Watermark is free, if you find it useful, please contribute using the PayPal donate button to encourage its continued development.

Requirements:

  • Aperture 2.1
  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later
  • Intel processor

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  • 1 APPLE.FEEDCOLLECTION.ORG // Jul 1, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    links from Technoratia copyright notice on every photo you post. If you use Aperture, even though it can embed a copyright notice in the metadata, there’s no way to add a visible notice unless you use an external editor.Watermarkfrom MC Development makes it easy to add a copyright notice to your photos. read more

  • 2 MacMegasite | Mac Community News // Jul 1, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    links from Technoratia copyright notice on every photo you post. If you use Aperture, even though it can embed a copyright notice in the metadata, there’s no way to add a visible notice unless you use an external editor.Watermark

  • 3 Aron Smetana // Jul 1, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    links from Technoratia copyright notice on every photo you post. If you use Aperture, even though it can embed a copyright notice in the metadata, there’s no way to add a visible notice unless you use an external editor.Watermarkfrom MC Development makes it easy to add a copyright notice to your photos. read more

  • 4 Flickr: Discussing Watermark plugin for Aperture 2.1 in Aperture Users // Jul 1, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    Kramer auto Pingback[...] like an easy way to add a custom watermark to your images… mcdevzone.com/projects/watermark/ now i have to try it out for myself!! Posted at 6:29PM, 1 July 2008 PDT ( permalink [...]

  • 5 Mac Life Online :: Die Seite der Mac Life // Jul 3, 2008 at 10:01 pm

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  • 6 Apple and watermarks: Mac Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review // Jul 21, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    Kramer auto Pingback[...]   Latest News Reviews / Previews Camera Database Timeline Buying Guide Sample Galleries Discussion Forums Learn / Glossary Feedback Newsletter Links RSS Feeds About if(typeof(window['ord'])==’undefined’) ord=Math.random()*10000000000000000; document.write(”); User: My ThreadsThreaded viewActions: ^ ForumForum   Mac TalkThread   Apple and watermarks  (2 messages)Started by   ajnikaj  [CLICK FOR PROFILE]Date/Time   01:28:04, 22 July 2008 (GMT) Apple and watermarks NEW ajnikaj – 2 hours ago I have a Macbook Pro and I primarily use Aperture, I also have Photoshop CS2. Can someone tell me how I can add a watermark to my photos using Aperture, or is there another tool that you can recommend. — http://ajnikaj.smugmug.com/ D300 D70 17-55 Nikkor 2.8 18-70 kit lens 18-200 VR lens 70-200 VR lens 50mm 1.4 lens Tokina 12-24mm lens 70-300D lens SB-800 flash [COMPLAINT]  [REPLY] [QUOTE] Re: Apple and watermarks NEW phila_guy – 47 mins ago ajnikaj wrote: > I have a Macbook Pro and I primarily use Aperture, I also have > Photoshop CS2. Can someone tell me how I can add a watermark to my > photos using Aperture, or is there another tool that you can > recommend. there’s this plugin for Aperture 2.0. http://mcdevzone.com/projects/watermark/ [...]

  • 7 Euthenics // Jul 30, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    Nice to have this application created. Thanks. However, I’ve noted that once embed the watermark, the photo quality degrade or simply edited settings of the photo become noisy. Hope you can figure out the problem and let the original settings remain as it was before embed the watermark.

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  • 9 Havilah Trude // Jan 19, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    Hello!
    I think your watermark tool is awesome! I downloaded it and it worked great, until I made a mistake: I accidentally deleted the text in the text box and now nothing shows up on my pictures. I deleted the file over and over and downloaded a new version many times into my Library, but now when I choose “Watermark” nothing shows up. Is there a way to edit your text (or lack of it)? I understand that the program remembers the text, etc. once you use it, but is there a way to go back and edit?
    Thanks so much!

  • 10 mike (70 comments.) // Jan 19, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    @Havilah,

    Open your ~/Library/Preferences folder and remove the file com.mcdevzone.watermark.plist which stores its settings.

  • 11 aperture.pl | blog & forum » Archive » Dodawanie znaku wodnego - Watermark 1.0 // Feb 28, 2009 at 9:22 am

    [...] to prosty plugin pozwalający na dodanie znaku wodnego do zdjęcia. Plugin do pobrania na stronie: http://mcdevzone.com/software/watermark/ Wtyczka nieposiada instalatora i nalezy ja umieścić [...]

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