Adding more watermarks

[Britishbennyboy]

Does anyone know if there is a way to add more than one watermark?

I have a nightclub client who has different events on and I want to add my logo, the clubs logo and each event logo (which changes) without having to photoshop into one each time theres a new event on

Is there a plugin I can use?

[Michael J. Hoffman]

Watermarking is done on export. You can create as many watermarks as you want, just name them well for better organization. 

Then, when you are exporting for a certain event, just choose the watermark you want in the export dialog. 

[Britishbennyboy]

I think you misunderstand, They are all individual logos and Lightroom wont let me import more than one logo at a time! I have multiply watermarks for other clients but I want to be able to add more than one watermark logo on the photos when I export without having to create them each time in photoshop when I do a different event 

So for example I would have my logo in the bottom right, the clubs in the bottom left and each event that changes in the middle

[john beardsworth]

Not in LR. You'd have to create the watermark files.

I suspect you'll need a plugin called LrMogrify. I don't use it, but I think it lets you send metadata fields into the watermark, so you might enter the event name in the Job field etc.

[john beardsworth]

From http://photographers-toolbox.com/blog/2010/07/lrmogrify-2-lightroom-3/

• Add multiple text annotations and graphical watermarks at the same time.
• Include image metadata (such as title, copyright, exposure information, etc.) in your text.

Ignore references to Lr3 or the 2010 date of the article - this information is still applicable.

[richardplondon]

You can combine the various logos and maybe a frame element etc, into one whole-page graphic overlay, in e.g. Photoshop - saving the result as an otherwise 100% transparent PNG of a suitable resolution.

Then your options include adding that whole thing as a watermark (visible only in the export, sizing will need to involve some trial and error);

or adding the whole thing as a Loupe Overlay (visible in Develop, can be useful to guide your cropping, graphic is scaled to fit the width of the image that is output) - in these cases the output file naming and metadata such as keywording will all be as expected for each photo.

Perhaps a simple Custom Text based watermark naming the event could be used together with a Loupe Overlay providing the corner logos.

Or otherwise, you can add overlay graphics and caption text etc to a page layout in the Print module and save out JPGs from there - in which case the file naming and metadata such as keywords, will not be individualised for each photo.