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P: Add image filename overlay to export watermark

Community Beginner ,
Aug 20, 2024 Aug 20, 2024

Hello Adobe,

 

I've been using Photoshop since the first public release. Same is true for Lightroom. Thank you for your superb products!

When clients send me their selects, sometimes the physcial filename for those images get renamed because of how they are viewing, culling and emailing the images back to me. Recently I was sent images with cryptic filenames, which takes more time out of my schedule to track down the images.

In Lightroom's Slideshow, there's an option to add text overlays for each image. One of the options is to show the image filename. I'm requesting to add the same text options found in Slideshow to the Export / Watermark menu. 

This will allow Lightroom users to bake in the filename as superimposed text over the image — so if the physical filename is ever modified, the Lightroom user can still easily track down the original file since it's visible on the image itself.

I've included a sample image of what the Slideshow Filename overlay looks like.

 

Also, it would be great to have left / center / right / top / bottom / corner justification options included for this.


Thank you, kindly.

 

Erik

Screenshot 2024-08-20 at 9.34.08 PM.png

 

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5 Comments
Community Beginner ,
Mar 08, 2025 Mar 08, 2025

Did anyone ever get back to you on this? I'd like to have this capability.

 

TY

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Explorer ,
Jun 13, 2025 Jun 13, 2025

It would be incredibly useful to be able to send proofs out with file numbers in my watermark. 

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LEGEND ,
Jun 13, 2025 Jun 13, 2025

Take a look at the LR/Mogrify plugin, which can add watermarks containing various metadata fields.

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Explorer ,
Jun 13, 2025 Jun 13, 2025

Thanks, John, will take a look. That said, this is such a basic need that I think Adobe should offer it in the watermark tools.

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LEGEND ,
Jun 13, 2025 Jun 13, 2025
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"I think Adobe should offer it in the watermark tools."

 

I agree. Unfortunately, people have been asking for years for watermarks that could pull dynamically from metadata.

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