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Is there a way to do an AUTOMATIC WATERMARK on all photographs

njjacob wrote:Is there a way to do an AUTOMATIC WATERMARK on all photographs

Currently no. Most importantly this is disabled because it causes mass degradation of all your photos. Why? Because when you have uploaded images to Imagevue, they are already sized and compressed to be web-friendly. If you are to watermark them, they would need to be re-compressed in the lossy JPG format. This is simply a poor option for anyone who appreciates maintaining optimal quality on their photos.

The best option for this, is to apply the watermark on the photos directly from the originals, saving them into a new folder and perhaps also resizing in the same process. There are several programs that can do this, including http://www.irfanview.com/ for Windows.

Optionally, with Imagevue, you can pseudo-watermark images by using a setting in Imagevue. Basically this does not watermark images, but in the flash interface, it overlays all images with some graphic so it looks like they are watermarked. Technically, they are not watermarked though. This option may be useless to you, depending on your reasons for having watermarking in the first place.

The only way to add watermark without corrupting images is to use Imagemagick. We had to remove Imagemagick support because of the random issues users experienced here and there. Also this means we would have to store the originals somewhere...

Even if we did have Imagemagick support, it is unlikely your server would have support for imagemagick.