Creating a text watermark, can someone help?

[GlenBarrington]

My organizer (ACDSee Pro 6) allows you to insert a visual watermark in photos, but it has to be a GIF image. I can create a gif with PSP, and I THINK I'm creating a transparent background, but when I try to use the resulting gif as a watermark, the background remains white enough to see even when I tell ACDSee to reduce opacity, while the text fades to virtually unusable levels. Can anyone tell me how to get a truly transparent background, or at least one that is neutral and acceptable as a watermark for both B&W and color? The link below is to an online storage area that contains screenshots of what I'm doing. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

http://www.acdseeonline.com/album/GlenB ... n/1975624/

[LeviFiction]

Quick touting of PSP's capabilities:
PSP also allows you to set a visible watermark and lets you use PNG. Corel has a video tutorial (I think they copied me ) on creating a visual watermark and performing the watermark through the patch processor if you need to do a lot of images at once.

On to the task at hand:
But, I know, you're here specifically to get an exported GIF to work. Funny thing about GIFs is you have to tell PSP that you want to use transparency.

If you go to File -> Export -> GIF Optimizer. This lets you pick special settings for GIF export. Including transparency.

So in the Transparency tab make sure to select "Exiting Image or Layer Transparency" since you want to use the transparency that's already there.

Once you've set everything up like you want hit the "OK" button at the bottom and it will open the 'Save As' Dialog. Give it a name and it should save out with transparency.

[GlenBarrington]

Ahh! thanks! This ACDSee watermark thing is something that has eaten away at my soul for years, and I decided to conquer it or die trying. I don't know that I will ever truly NEED it, but I want to know I can do it if I have to! I will also investigate PSP's watermark functions and use whatever is easiest!

BTW, this is one of the best user forums around. You guys are great!

[Radim]

Hello,

there are quite a few freeware to make watermarks on photos:
- http://www.highmotionsoftware.com/products/imbatch
- http://www.highmotionsoftware.com/artic ... -watermark

FastStone Image Viewer has batch processing tool with watermarks (can use *any* image format)
- http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (http://lab.php5.cz/watermark_fastone_image_viewer.png)

So try to find the one fit you best.

[Cassel]

I have one watermarking in my store that works on batch. It has one advantage that it will still keep a copy of the un-marked image so you still have an original version to work with (without the watermark). Another advantage is that it is free.
http://creationcassel.com/store/index.p ... cts_id=286