Moving from/to MAC/PC Watermarks Need to be Recreated

[DS256]

I just moved from a PC to a MAC. The moving of LrC went well using the book from Lightroom Queen. A few hiccups but ok except for watermarks. 

All my graphic watermarks appeared when I selected one in EXPORT however I received a generic 'watermark error'.

Looking at the template, on the MAC, I found this line 

imagePath = "C:\\Users\\paul\\Pictures\\_Photography\\Signatures\\Digital Art - White.png",

Obviously this will not work on a MAC. When I manually tried to change the file reference to the correct one for MAC, I still got an error.

Looks like I need to recreate my watermark definitions on the MAC 😞

[Aleke]

Hey @DS256!

Just to clarify, is the issue that Lightroom Classic isn't finding the path for the file you use in your graphic watermarks? If so, in your new installation of LrC on your Mac, go to Edit > Edit Watermarks. Then, in the top left, select one of your watermarks, and in the top right under Image Options, select the image to re-link it to your watermarks.

Hope this helps!

Thanks, Alek

[DS256]

Aleke, I can relink but the problem comes when I try to save. Others have suggested I can go back into the drop down for Watermarks and update there. I haven't gotten that to work and created a new version with a '2' suffix and deleted the old ones.

[richardplondon · Accepted solution]

The interface for this takes some getting used to, being quite unusual. The Save button does not do what one might first suppose: it in effect means "Save As a New Preset" - thus it will not accept any preset name which already exists, since that would not be a new name. Rather a strained logic maybe but that's how it is.

In the example below, " I am editing "new preset" and clicking Save, LrC defaults to trying to create its default name for fresh new presets "Untitled Preset" but a different preset called that is already in place (from a previous occasion), so that particular name is refused for saving. The same would happen if I re-typed "new preset" into the box instead, because that also already exists.

The way to apply changes to a pre-existing preset, while retaining its same name is: not Save, but Update.

[edit: I see you've had this advice already; it should work but if still problematic, I suggest switch to a text based watermark, update preset, switch back to image based watermark and re-browse to the image concerned, then update preset again]

Here I made a change to a different watermark preset called "agency", and then chose the menu option highlighted in this second screenshot, which drops down from the selector titled "agency (edited)".

A similar approach shows up elsewhere in LrC, of updating previously-made presets of other kinds.