keepcarlson Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Hello! I have multiple 3”x5” .jpgs. 100’s of them in fact. For each one I need to place either a text box or another jpg in the bottom right coroner. More or less a “watermark”, or stamp if you will, although it needs to be 100% opaque and highly visible. I am hoping to find a way to automate placing the watermark/stamp so I don’t have to place it manually on each jpg and export. I tried to use a macro followed by a batch job. I brought in about 50 of the .jpgs as a layer stack, and placed the watermark at the top. I turned layer visibility off for all but the watermark at the top. Sadly once I started to record the macro, it would not let me record turning on the visibility of a layer. Can anyone advise on a workflow that might allow me to accomplish this automation? I have Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher. I do not have Photoshop (and can’t afford it). Perhaps someone knows of an open source product that will do this? Gimp, Inkscape? I also tinker with python if there is a library for this type of thing? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I'd say give Gimp a try. I've not used it in decades, but done a quick search for tutorials on how to do what you want. They have tutorials on YouTube showing how. Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted January 26, 2022 Staff Share Posted January 26, 2022 The following YouTube vision shows how to add a watermark to photos using the Batch job tool Ron P. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepcarlson Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 Thank you so much Ron P. and Dwright! Very much appreciate your responses. I watched the video and tried it first and it worked perfectly!!! Since it worked, I did not try Gimp. Thank you again for helping me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I watch a lot of his tutorials. Missed that one. Learned something more about AP.. Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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