applying a logo to hundreds of photos of different sizes

[shiro]

Hi,

does anybody know how I can put a logo to hundreds of photos of different sizes. The logo must be always in the same corner and of the same dimension.

Thank you shiro

[v_kyr]

Not sure if the APh macro recording facility now would take image dimensions (different sizes) dynamically into account, in the past it didn't and thus was unusable for such automation tasks. Meaning, in the past macro recording always used the fixed sizes of w/h etc. of the image the macro was initially recorded from and didn't took different image sizes here into account.

Thus you have to try out on two ... three different sized test images, if a recorded macro for positioning an logo/watermark would work in the way you usually would expect. In case it does, you have to use that macro then within batch processing of your image files (ideally on a folder copy of the initial images in case of possible mismatch).

Other than that, personally I trust more in other tools here like ImageMagick for such batch processing tasks. - One can also use it's "Mogrify" command for changing images in place, so something like ...

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mogrify -path yourpath/yourimagefolder -format jpg -draw 'image over 0,0 0,0 "yourpath/logo.jpg"' *.jpg

... or ...

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mogrify -path yourpath/yourimagefolder -format png -draw 'image over 0,0 0,0 "yourpath/logo.png"' *.jpg

... where you need to just specify what image format to use and your images have. It can convert into whatever image format. However, here again for security reasons, you should always work with a copy of your original image files!

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Not sure if the APh macro recording facility now would take image dimensions (different sizes) dynamically into account, in the past it didn't and thus was unusable for such automation tasks. Meaning, in the past macro recording always used the fixed sizes of w/h etc. of the image the macro was initially recorded from and didn't took different image sizes here into account.

The Library panel in 1.7 has some new options at the bottom to help with that:

Unfortunately, the Batch Job dialog, which is probably what's needed to operate on a large number of photos, does not seem to have those options.

[v_kyr]

That's somehow short minded for macros, to tell them afterwards how to behave and thus not being able to incorporate that behavior directly into a macro itself.-  This way via the library panel it seems not to be then of much help for batch processing tasks.