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Watermark Secondary Display - Lightroom Classic

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February 4, 2020
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I'm a photographer. I frequently setup at events where attendees can view photos on a secondary display and purchase photos. If I'm not looking, people take a picture of my picture with their phone. How can I apply a watermark to the photos on my secondary display screen? Is there a plugin that will allow this? How hard is it to create this function?

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Correct answer Just Shoot Me

Isn't this all in the Slideshow module? And how do you get that on the second disply.

Rob_Cullen

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LIGHTROOM HAS THIS FEATURE, CALLED "IMAGE OVERLAY".

You need an "Onion Skin" overlay image created preferably as a PNG type file with transparent areas. (Without transparency the overlay must be reduced in opacity to see the image below.)

You can use a graphic image such as one you might use as an Identity Plate.

Select the Onion Skin Overlay from its system folder [Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O] or Menu>View>Loupe Overlay>Choose Layout Image. The overlay can be re-sized by dragging the box 'handles', and hold [Ctrl] to adjust opacity with the mouse 'scrubby' adjustment below the image

With Loupe view active, and camera tethered, as the images import you will see them with the Overlay in place. Ctrl+Alt+O will toggle the overlay Visible/Hidden.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

Conrad_C

Community Expert

You might be on to something...almost everybody else (including me) forgets about the Loupe Overlay.

But there's one missing piece. The original post requests that this appear on the Secondary Display, which faces the clients. But I can't find a way to make the Loupe Overlay appear on the Seconday Display.

With many Lightroom Classic view modes (such as Loupe, Grid, or Survey), it's possible to put that view mode on the Secondary Display by adding Shift to the mode’s keyboard shortcut. But that doesn’t work for the Loupe Overlay because adding Shift makes it the shortcut for Choose Layout Image. Is there a way to put the Loupe Overlay on the Secondary Display?

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

"one missing piece" yes, isn't there always!!

I do not know a way to show the Overlay on the second display- sorry, but-

I once set up a wedding 'selfie' stall (un-attended). I simply set Lightroom with [Shift+Tab] to close all side panels and then mirrored the laptop screen to an external monitor. As the camera triggered (by a radio remote), Lr auto-import pulled in the image to view with the overlay.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Watermarks in Lightroom Classic are currently designed to be applied to a final output file, so while you can and should suggest it as a feature request, it's enough different from the way watermarks currently work that it might be a while (like, years) before it might be considered for implementation.

Something that you could do much sooner is to load your watermark graphic into an application that can overlay a graphic with a transparent background and window, and which can also be set to remain in front of all other applications. It could stay in front of Lightroom Classic on your secondary display, hopefully without interfering with what you might be doing on your primary display. There are a couple of applications you could try that might accomplish this. They are both called Overlay but appear to be from different developers:

Overlay2 — Note that the web page shows Lightroom Classic as the example, a graphic is floated above it. Mac & Windows.

Overlay — Mac only.

This is not a recommendation of either application, because I have never used either of them myself. You might also be able to find an even better option; I only found those two using a quick web search.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

You can't unless you first Export the image, images, and include a watermrk on those exports.

The only time you can add a watermark on an image in LR is during the Export process.

But here is an Idea. Make up a clear film overlay for your second screen that has a logo/watermark across it. Apply that clear film over the second display. Anyone taking a picture of it also gets the logo/watermark that is on the clear film.

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Chris PorterAuthor

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thats my back up plan for the next event. It just seems like it should be really easy to do with an existing watermark within lightroom preferences or somewhere.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

The main point of LR is to NOT change the original file. Any and all edits you do in LR are just Overlaid on the original file. Only at time of export are those edits burned into, Applied to, the New file created through the export process.

It is because of this that Watermarks are only applied to images at the time of export.

In any event what you are looking to do is just Display some Text, logo, image, on the second monitor and not obscure the image being displayed by LR. I personally don't know of any system that can do that.

Sahil.Chawla

Adobe Employee

Hi there,

You may share this as a feature request here: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family This forum is directly monitored by our developers and they might look into implementing it in future releases.

Regards,
Sahil

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